The metaphors and symbols that these authors use through their images help us better understand the emotional state of the characters. Although Udall's story “The Wig” ends with better lives for the characters involved, Faulkner's “A Rose For Emily” is a darker and more macabre testament to the need to communicate after loss. And, well, who knows what stranger habits the son might adopt in “The Wig,” if his father hadn't embraced them