Traditionally, when most think of the word "poverty" and neglect, what comes to mind are scenes of children in third-world countries without food, clothing, or shelter. Miss Emily doesn't fall into that specific catagory of poverty. She could be considered however, poverty stricken in mind and certainly neglected. She has little family, her mother isn't mentioned in the story, and her father has what seems to be complete control over his daughter, not allowing her to live her life. So, it doesn't come as a surprise that she would want to hold on to Homer Barron, her "husband", forever. She had been without such happiness her whole life, that when she found him, she wasn't going to let go of him, so he could desert her and leave her alone. Seeing som

vanishing into her belt, leaning on an ebony cane with a tarnished gold head. Her

In ending, the similar illustrations of house and occupant relate a common unattractive presence of neglect and poverty, with some stubbornness. You could say that much of it could possibly go back to her father. He never allowed her to grow, and when he died, Homer Barron was a treat that she was never allowed to have, she was deprived in the beginning and as a result, she held on to it in the end. Also, like her father, Miss Emily possessed an unrelenting outlook toward life, and she refused to change, which made her quite headstrong. Mr. Grierson left Emily only one thing when he past away, his house. A house that stood by her, had similiar qualities, and at times acted as her only friend.

"...a small, fat woman in black, with a thin gold chain descending to her waist and

skeleton was small and spare; perhaps that was why what would have been merely

Neglecting to take care of her body is similar to the way in which her house had been forgotten and not been kept after. The house "...had once been white, decorated with cupolas and spires and scrolled balconies in the heavily lightsome style of the seventies, set on what had once been our most select street." (Faulkner 72). Faulkner's use of su

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