As the story unfolds we find that Emily is use to a life of prestige in her community living with her rich father who set the impression for her and the rest of the town that no man was really good enough for her. Since this was the only life she ever really knew see was at a huge loss when her

Soon after her father died Emily met Homer Barron, who seemed to represent the quickly fading ideals and old fashioned prestige of the age that the Grierson family was on top of. I say this because Homer Barron comes into town with a work party to fix the sidewalks where he is the white leader of this group of black workers. He definitely has the power in his group and a high social standing. He also makes friends with everyone in town quickly. Emily and Homer start to see each other on a regular basis and this makes the townsfolk happy, at first. Soon the people of Jefferson, with their old fashioned family values and beliefs on marriage and sex, become offended that they keep seeing Homer staying the night over at Emily’s house, and they do everything that they can to pressure Emily into marrying Homer. Do to the pressure of the never-relenting eyes and wills of the townsfolk Emily finds Homer to be a reasonable suitor and pursues a lifelong relationship with Homer. Than after a while some of the ladies of the town started thinking as Emily’s father probably would have about their relationship saying, “it was a disgrace to the town and a bad example to the young people.”

From this point in the story it is not extremely clear what happens, but I believe that do to the rising negative outlook on her and Homer’s relationship and the fact that “Homer himself had remarked-he liked men, and it was known that he drank with the

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