Our illusions are based and composed with the daily interaction that we have with our culture, personal pre-occupations and daily experiences that sometimes are hard to believe. These are constantly reflected throughout our lifes in a way that we might not be able to notice. An illusion is defined in the Microsoft Encarta 98 Encyclopedia as "a false sensory perception of an actual stimulus" (Encarta, par.1). This article is convincing us that most of our mental images are in a form of basically interrupted stories that are made up partially of our memories and full of frequent scenes from what we encountered in our daily vitality. They can also have an integration of parts from our emotions that are constantly present in them, if we feel depressed, in harmony or loneliness. In psychological terms, illusions are consider to be a very natural process and necessary rather than being conginated as abnormal, which are sometimes known as passive illusions. This means that

The Gestalt school of psychology, what we see is the result of processes of organization in the brain. Such processes are based on relationships between aspects of the stimulus, so that impressions of size, shape, color, and the like are determined not to merely by the retinal image of the object itself but by the other objects present in the field as well. This general doctrine is now widely accepted. (785)

She told them that her father was not dead. She did this for three days, with the minister calling on her, and the doctors, trying to persuade her to let them dispose of the body. Just as they were about to resort to the law and forces, she broke down, and they buried he father quickly. (29)

In many cases, people who had lost a relative or loved person use their illusions to put away their sadness and to feel comfortable in life after an lost. In Emily's situation, she did this because she figured out that she was now alone in the world and the most reasonable thing to do was to imagine or to make believe her mind that her father was only taking a long nap rather than facing the devastated lost. Faulkner is making us understand that maybe because she was raised only by her father, that the most reasonable way of not feeling alone after his death was by keeping the body in her house:

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