why is she called a fallen monument in the first paragraph
Why is she called a fallen monument in the first paragraph?Women of the Old South and of a good family were often put on pedestals as paragons of virtue and respectability and given special...heir old colonial mansions fell to the ground and into oblivion. The old mannerisms, customs, and traditions of old were also succumbing to the changing times. Emily, like those old, strong plantations, was a thing of the past gone awry. She is a vestige, a symbol of a past that will not return.