... inadequate wealth but lack something that is priceless. In "A Rose for Emily,"" Emily's loneliness creates emptiness inside her she struggles to fulfill. The old deaf man in "A Clean Well Lighted Place- lacks the ability to have a good night sleep. But the similarities between these two characters are represented ... snuck into her home and removed the smell by sprinkling lime all over her property. When the townspeople disapproved of Miss Emily's relationship with Homer Baron, they could not work up the courage to tell her. Instead they relentlessly persuaded the Baptist minister to con...

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