... the gasoline pumps--an eyesore among eyesores", we can see a juxtaposition of the past and present and it was an emblematic presentation of Emily herself (Fiction154). And later, we read that she declared that she had no taxes in Jefferson, basing her belief on a verbal agreement ... made with Colonel Sartoris, who had been dead for ten years. So "Miss Emily Grierson of "A Rose for Emily," Miss Minnie Cooper of "Dry September," and the title characters of "Elly" and "Miss Zilphia Gant" are all driven to perverse or violent rebellion against the prevailing community standard"(Harrington ...

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