As we read this story we realize that Emily's conflicts start as a young girl. Her father who was a strict man did not let her have a healthy social life. He made her an outcast in her own community. This alone created most of the conflicting situations in her life after her father's death. Even after her fathers death she refused to acknowledge all the changes that were happening outside her house as the years went by. The confusion that Faulk

In conclusion we can see that the conflicts with in herself and the constant disapproval of the community made Miss Emily mentally ill and put her into a very insatiable state of mind. Emily is an embodiment of "a fallen monument" which is secret and terrible and William Faulkner very well succeeds in giving the reader a clear picture of these conflicts throughout the story.

ner has given produces confusion in Emily's life. Emily went to and fro in the lonely circle and did not have any chance to break that circle's wall. Outside time was going by quickly as the natural direction. But Emily was encircled inside and was still where she had been. Yes, Emily is a person of the past. Readers have this feeling in the very first sentences through the description of Emily's house: "lifting its stubborn and coquettish decay above the cotton wagons and the gasoline pumps." This message of essential ugliness of contrast is a presentation of Emily in present time--"an eyesore among eyesores." During the story,

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