The father figure is still a important symbol in her life though. When he dies she doesn't accept the fact that he is gone. Her father was 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 crazy aunt. The relatives in Alabama were the only were all she had but the old wound inflicted by her father was not going to heal. Then the worst thing happens after her father is gone. The man that she was engaged to runs off and leaves her all alone. She didn't ever recover form this, she isolated her self in her house. The only person that saw her on a regular basis was a black man that brought her food whe

n she needed it. The only man that her father must of approved of ran out on her. This must have been the breaking point for her. Loosing the two most important people in her life near the same time must have been unbearable for her.

Emily led a sheltered and tormented life. With her father hanging over in her adolescent years totally controlling her life. Keeping her to a mold of how he thought she should be raised in. The thought of another man leaving her must have freaked her out and put her in this position. Mabey killing him was a bit rash, but she must have been really weirder out after all of that . plus the fact that there was insanity in her family may have contributed to that and what she did after she kills him. This was just psycho, there is no better way to put it. I guess the cloths were to dress the corps and the grooming ideas were to keep him looking as handsome as the day he died. One thing that boggles me, how did she bear the smell that a rotting corps must have put off. I would think that it would be unbearable.

This is a sad story that Faulkner has written. It depicts the hard ships that individual who has had so much loss is led to deal with all of

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