Mrs. Emily was living under her father’s strict mentality. He basically chased all men away from her, believing no one was good enough for his daughter. It was when he died, she single and thirty at the time, that she began to slip into isolation from the community. It was he who robbed her f

rom the experience of men. After her fathers death “all the ladies prepared to call at the house and offer condolence and aid”(206). Miss Emily showed no feeling of grief and told everyone her father is not dead. She kept her father in her home for three days until she “broke down” and let the community bury him. The townspeople did not believe she was crazy, even though they knew insanity ran in her family. They thought Emily did this because they remembered how the father drove all the young men away. Now she was a figure that could be pitied by the town, alone and penniless.

For a long period after her father's death Miss Emily was sick and remained in solitude.

In the summer after her father's death she eventually comes out and is seen by the townspeople with a Yankee day laborer, Homer Barron, driving in the yellow-wheeled buggy on Sunday afternoons. The older townspeople thought that even with Miss Emily's grief, she couldn't forget that she came from a family of a higher social position than to date a northern Yankee. Then the town began to whisper and gossip. Yet, Miss Emily held her head high with dignity. Although everyone was saying “poor Emily,” she still had her strong will and held an intimidating personna. During this time Homer and Miss Emily see each other for some time, and the community believes they will marry. But it was not a surprise to them when

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