Inside the illustrious story by William Faulkner there is a tale of a lonely woman who is living out the better part of her life inside a cage. The setting is in a southern town which most likely aided to the problems she faces due to the views of the South. Emily's father is the type that did not approve of any contact from the men of the town so she was always being held back in the area of socialization so she started out in a bad situation of not being a part of the community. Her father's logic being that he didn't see it as proper for her to be as the others her age.

The father figure is still a important symbol in her life though. When he dies she doesn't even accept the fact that he is gone. Her father was basically the only real person in her life. She had relatives in Alabama but they were pushed away by her father over some land that was left behind by a eccentric aunt. The relatives in Alabama were all she had but the old wound inflicted by her father was not going to heal. To add to Emily's already depressed state the man that she was engaged to runs off and leaves her all alone. This was a final blow for Emily and this she could not recover from, so she barred herse

lf from the outside world and isolated herself inside her house. The only man that her father must have approved of, ran out on her making this the possible breaking point for her. Especially when loosing the two most important people in her life near the same time. The only other person Emily saw on a regular basis was a black man, named Tobe, that brought her food and helped out with the odd thing when she needed it.

One day the improbable happens to poor Emily. A man who is in charge of building the new sidewalks comes to town. Emily soon ends up falling for him and they start a possible romance. This must have been a hard thing for Emily to do; for one thing it is the first man that has even had contact with her since her spouse and her father. Faulkner did not really go into much detail with the construction worker Homer Barron. Just that they were seen in a carriage riding back form church one Sunday. The time passes by and the sidewalks are finished, and it was soon time for Homer to leave. Emily will not let another man walk of her life for a third time.

This is a distressing story that Faulkner has written. It strongly depicts the hard ships that an individual who has had so much loss is led to deal with all of her pain. Is it the righ

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