Miss Emily had obviously grown up among the upper class, as Faulkner illustrates in the second paragraph, with such descriptions of a wealthy neighborhood and a beautiful estate for the time. The focus quickly changes to the author's use of past tense. Not only is Miss Emily deceased, but also all of her possessions had died long before she did. The audience first makes note of the matter when Faulkner writes, "...set on what had once been our most select street"(The Bedford Introduction to Literature 72). The preceding line reveals to us that Miss Emily is no longer considered part of the upper class. The next few lines paint a picture of a decaying, rundown house set in the middle of an up and coming town. In fact Faulkner describes it as "...an eyesore among eyesores"(73).

------------------------------------------------------------------------

In scene two we also learn that Miss Emily pretty much locked herself inside the house once her father died. There was also mention of her denying the fact that her father had passed on, therefore leaving the reader with the possible thought of an unfit relationship between he and Emily.

In the last few lines of the story the townspeople discover an indentation of a head and a strand of gray hair on a pillow next to the man's head. Thus we are led to believe that obviously this is the hair of Miss Emily and she was either lying down next to the man after she murdered him, or after he had passed on.

The author takes us back to her funeral, and the characters seem to be focusing on a room that has not been opened in years. Once the door has been pried open a few startling revelations: the engraved toilet set, men's clothes, and last but not least a man's dead body lying in the bed, presumably Homer's.

After reading the story we have to wonder if Faulkner was just trying to display a woman who could no longer take care of herself and to her killing this man was a victory or a "rose", or do we believe the same about her self worth, but that she found that she could never love another man because of her father, otherwise because he was not her father.

ially those who have inhabited the town all of their lives. The older generation speaks back, "Damn it, sir," Judge Stevens said, " will you accuse a lady to her face of smelling bad?"(74) Here, the judge is plainly stating that he was brought up to respect others, primarily the female race.

Some common words found in the essay are:
Miss Emily, Miss Emily's, Colonel Sartoris', Apparently Emily, Homer Emily, Emily Grierson, Judge Stevens, William Faulkner, Colonel Sartoris, Emily Homer, miss emily, miss emily's, upper class, emily homer, emily's father, rose emily, toilet set, colonel sartoris',
Approximate Word count = 1100
Approximate Pages = 4 (250 words per page double spaced)