How does Faulkner use the symbols of colored glass and the garden to represent Aunt Jenny?
Faulkner makes the connection between Aunt Jenny and the glass she brought with her to Mississippi clear by personifying the glass: “The sparse colored panes which framed the window dreamed, rich and hushed.” After Benbow brings her the hat to put on her head, when she is about to die, she sits “beside the window framed by the sparse and defunctive Carolina glass.” Her death is indicated first in the description of the window: when Elnora enters the library, she “looked into the room where beside the dead window the old woman sat motionless.” Aunt Jenny also brought “a few flower cuttings” with her to Mississippi, which she made into a garden. As the time nears for Aunt Jenny to die, the sun sets over the garden, representing her life drawing to an end. When Elnora reports that Narcissa and Benbow went to the creek, “The sun was now falling level across teh garden below the window, and soon the jasmine in the garden began to smell with evening, coming into the room in slow waves almost
