A Rose For Emily

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her. Inside was a dusty, dank desolate realm dominated by the presence of the crayon portrait of her father. Miss Emily was described as a small, fat woman in black, with a thin gold chain descending to her waist and vanishing into her belt, leaning on an ebony cane with a tarnished gold head. Her skeleton was small and spare: perhaps that was why what would have been merely plumpness in another was obesity in her. She looked bloated, like a body long submerged in motionless water, and of that pallid hue. Her eyes lost in the fatty ridges of her face, looked like two small pieces of coal pressed into a lump of dough (55). In the confrontation between the generations when she speaks defiantly to community representatives, her taxes remain uncollected, and she triumphs.


This conquest of the modern generation reminds the narrator of an earlier battle

when she had vanquished their fathers thirty years before about the smell. You're directed toward the battle language - ...

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from the past. When her father died and left her penniless, people were glad they could pity her. The unemotional Miss Emily clings to her father for 3 days then breaks down and they bury him. Why was Miss Emily so possessive of her father's body? What was she planning on doing with him? The town did not say she was crazy then, they believed she had to do it. They remembered all of the young men her father had driven away, and they knew that with nothing left, she would have to cling to that which had robbed her.


For a long period after her father's death Miss Emily was sick and remained in solitude, when she reappears she appears girlish. In the summer after her father's death ...

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