Emily shows her unhappiness one way by acting senile. She acts as if dead people are still alive. When the Aldermen came to her house to discuss her paying taxes, she would tell them “see Colonel Sartoris” (Faulkner 131). The downside to her statement is that Colonel Sartoris has bee

n dead almost ten years. Maybe no one told her that he has been dead, but that is hard to believe. When her father passed on to the afterlife Emily told the ladies, which came to her house to give her their condolences, that her father was not dead. She done this for three days, until she was finally convinced to let the doctors dispose of her father’s body, which they did quickly. She just could not grasp the fact that her father was gone and he was not coming back. The most ludicrous act that Emily did was when she had her male acquaintances, Homer Barron, dead body laying on a bed in one of the rooms in her house. This was the only way that she could have the man she loved. After Emily’s death, some of her family came to her house to pay their respects. When they found the room with Homer’s body in it, they also found evidence that Miss Emily had been lying in the bed with him, after his death.

Finally, Emily was an irritable person, which is a noticeable characteristic of being unhappy. Going back to when the Aldermen came to her house, again, Emily is very impolite and short worded with them. She kept on repeating herself and refused to change her mind no matter what. Throughout their conversation, Emily is basically telling the Aldermen the she has “no taxes” in Jefferson (Faulkner 131). She believed that the tax break her father got should be past on to her since he is passed away. When she went to t

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