woman who is violated by her father's strict mentality. After being the only

man in her life Emily's father dies and she finds it hard to let go. Emily

was raised in the ante-bellum period before the Civil War. This story takes

place in the Reconstruction Era after the war when the North takes control of

the South. Like her father, Miss Emily possesses a stubborn outlook towards

life and refuses to change. This short story explains Emily, her mystified

ways and the townsfolk's sympathetic curiosity.

The plot of the story is mainly about Miss Emily's attitude about

change. "On the first of the year they mailed her a tax notice. February came

and there was no reply. They wrote her a formal letter asking her to call the

sheriff's office at her convenience. A week later the mayor wrote her

herself, offering to call or to send his car for her, and received in reply a

note on paper of an archaic shape, in a thin, flowing calligraphy in faded

ink, to the effect that's he no longer went out at all. The tax notice was

enclosed, without comment." (189). Miss Emily was convinced that she had no

persona caused by her father's treatment when she was young. When Miss

downstairs rooms, in a heavy walnut bed with a curtain, her gray head propped

would have an interest, because the ladies all said, 'Of course a Grierson

and Mr. Homer Barron are the two main characters described. Miss Emily was

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