ABSTRACT
In my own reading of " A Rose for Emi ly , " I found two basic structures. Incorporation: I wi l l take and keep the old thing inside of me. Denial: there is no new thing in external reality. Within a core defined by these defensive patterns, I could transform the events and words back and forth from a variety of primitive, bodily fantasies about Emily and her house to social, intellectual, and mythic themes about the conflict be tween the denial of change and its inevitability.
