Emily has an obligation to the nobility of her family name. After all, ?A Grierson would not think seriously of a northerner.? The Grierson family is presented as the typical southern family, with the old money and the big house, and family ties to the Bible, which make their lives look simple. With the Civil War over, there are no more barriers for the southerners to hide behind, except their traditions. It is these traditions that seem to drive Miss Emily to kill Homer, for if she can not have him, then no one can, and the town can take their traditions and go to hell for all she cares. It is not her family name

Emily had finally met a man that she adored, but the views of society prevented her from fulfilling that love because of the thoughts of a southerner and a northerner being together in that era. A neighbor has seen Miss Emily?s Negro man admit Homer through the kitchen door at dusk one evening. That was the last anyone of Homer Barron. Strangely enough, Miss Emily had not been seen for six months either after Homer disappeared.

The townspeople knew there was a room that no one had seen the inside of for forty years. They waited until Miss Emily was buried before they entered. The man (Homer) himself was lying on the bed. ?Upon a chair hung the suit, carefully folded; beneath it the two mute shoes and the discarded socks.? They finally knew what happened to Homer Barron (Faulkner 2175).

that prevents her from having a marriage with homer; it is tradition. There is nothing for Miss Emily to hide behind; she has no excuses for not accepting a match with Homer. It is the opinion of the town that she is concerned with; the invasion of the new class does not coincide with the old southern traditions of her youth (Faulkner 2172).

Obviously, Emily thought more of retaining her dignity within the community rather that satisfying her need for love and to be loved. Em

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