After being the only man in her life, Emily’s father dies and she finds it hard to let go. “Miss Emily met them at the door, dressed as usual and with no trace of grief on her face,”(27). She told them that her father was not dead”(27).

While growing up, Emily was raised in a comfortable environment because her father possessed a lot of money. Emily had everything a child could want. This caused Emily to be very spoiled and selfish and she never knew the value of a dollar until her fathe

r left her with nothing but a run down home that started to decay after a period of time. She began to ignore the surrounding decay of the house and her appearance. Her life, like the decaying house suffered from a lack of genuine love and care. Her physical appearance is brought about by years of neglect. As time went on pieces from Emily started to drift away and also the home that she confined herself to. That was when people had begun to feel really sorry for her. People in our town, as told by an anonymous member of the community, believed that the Griersons held themselves a little too high for what they really were. “When her father died, it got about that the house was all that was left to her; and in a way, people were glad. “At last they could pit Miss Emily. Being left alone, and a pauper, she had become humanized”(26).

And of Miss Emily for some time”(47). The next time the townspeople saw Miss Emily she had grown fat and hair was gray. “Up to the day of her death at seventy-four it was still that vigorous iron-gray, like the hair of an active man”(48). She died in one of the downstairs rooms, in a heavy walnut bed with a curtain, her gray head propped on a pillow yellow and moldy with

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