Emily’s Father is portrayed as a dominant male, who considers himself as superior to women, which illustrates his old-fashioned ways and his inability to move on into the future (because in the story, traditional values are replaced by more modern ones). In fact, this image is reflected in the townspeople’s own tableau of the main character and her father. Emily is described as a “slender figure in white in the background” (Faulkner 350), implying that she is just a slight figure, comparable to nothing at all. The color white symbolizes Emily’s innocence

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