Miss Emily lived under the strict rule of her father up until his death. He did not allow her to live or enjoy life as she would please, he “had robbed her” (Faulkner 624) of all the “young men” (624) in her life. Her family was of great importance to the town of Jefferson, so important in fact that upon the death of her father the mayor of Jefferson, Colonel Sartoris, “remitted her taxes…into perpet

Through out Miss Emily’s life the town of Jefferson never questioned her actions, they knew that there was a limit to what they could say or even demand of Miss Emily. This allowed her to do pretty much anything she wished. Upon Miss Emily’s death after the “ladies at the front door” (627) were escorted in and they “knew there was one room in that region above the stairs which no one had seen in forty years, and which would have to be forced” (627), they would discover what can happen when “heroic isolation pushed too far ends in homicidal madness” (Brooks 191) when they discover the decayed remains of Homer Barron lying in the bed.

uity” (622). This act was the beginning of the “foster care” it would extend to Miss Emily. We learn years later that the Board of Aldermen tries, without much success, to get Miss Emily to pay her taxes. After sending out the tax notice they would wait until “February came, and there was no reply” (622). The mayor “wrote her himself” (622) and offered “to call or to se

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