Miss Emily Grierson was a disturbed, proud and lonely woman, growing up with only her father and a Negro man servant. During the years in which her father was alive the Grierson’s had a way of thinking that they were better than everyone else in the town of Jefferson, in fact they were so much better than everyone else in town that no boy in the whole town of Jefferson was good enough to date Miss Emily.

When Miss Emily’s father died the death had a profound effect on her, for days after her father passed people would come to the house begging her to let them dispose of his body and, as the story states, “She told them her father was not dead.” Finally after three days she let them finally take and bury the body, quickly; quickly due to the foul smell of decay.

The setting attributed to Miss Emily’s character by putting her in a strong, proud southern family with a daddy who was a proud important man who had actually loaned money to the town during time of trouble. This contributed to their thoughts that they were more important and far more superior then anyone else in town. In fact she would not even pay taxes in the town of Jefferson, she was so sure that they still owed her for the loan her father gave them years ago. I feel it was very sad the way her father isolated her from every boy that came calling when she was younger, he set her up to be alone after he had passed. After understanding how devastating that had to be on her, it was not surprising to learn that she poisoned Homer. I really believe that we still see people this desperate and lonely in today’s world, we read stories everyday about people killing their lovers/spouses because they were threatening to leave them; maybe, just maybe there is a little Miss Emily in all of us!

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