Emily’s house was a place of safety in its darkest times, two of them being when her dad passed away and also the mysterious disappearance (death) of her significant other, Homer.
At the beginning of the story, the house was described as a place that could make anyone feel safe, “It was a big, squarish frame house that had once been white, decorated with cupolas and spires and scrolled balconies in the heavily lightsome style of the seventies” (Faulk
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