a rose is a rose

While helping my student with her reflectios on the nightingale story by Oscar Wilde, we produced the following paragraph to explain the last scene of the story -- a rose falling into the gutter:

By falling into the gutter, the rose ends up being with the more indignant and repulsive things in the world. The rose loses its shine and originality. The cartwheel, on the other hand, is an inanimate heavy object that is moving forward. It squeezes the life out of the rose without knowing what it has done, and it continues on its path, heading for a certain destination with no regard for the living details along the way.