Miss Emily Pompous

He then goes on to describe how “Colonel Sartoris invented an involved tale to the effect that Miss Emily’s father had loaned money to the town, which the town, as a matter of business preferred this way of repayment.” Remitting Miss Emily’s taxes was a

When Miss Emily’s father passed away she began to start acting out. Emily is stuburned like her father, who refuses to change. Although her father had lots of money, he only left Miss Emily the home. Soon the town started asking Miss Emily to pay her taxes. But, she refused to do so. Colonel Sartoris, the mayor of the town, planned to not make Miss Emily pay taxes on her house, “Not that Miss Emily would have accepted charity” (452), trying not to make it seem like Colonel Sartoris was offering her charity. He made up an imaginary loan from her father to the town

In the end, with her death, which is where the story begins, Miss Emily is the talk of the town. Not because people truly mourn her, but because people are curious about the life she had lived in secret, in her big house, for all those years. People pitied her, it was as had been left alone in the world and seemed to have wished it that way.

My ultimate take is that Faulkner portrayed her to have a dark soul. Emily lived in disgust for someone who held themselves to such a higher standard than most people. He portrayed this not only by her actions but also on the description of her home inside and out. The people in the town felt sorry for her quite possibly because she was alone, perhaps this is why they put up with her in the manner they

The author’s third main character, Homer Barron, really shows us just how far Miss Emily has spiraled out of control. When the neighbors first get wind of Miss Emily dating Homer, a northerner, they are happy for her saying, "[a]t first we were glad that Miss Emily would have an interest...but there were still others, older people who said that even grief could not cause a real lady to forget noblesse oblige--without calling it noblesse oblige" (208). Some of the neighbors could not believe that a woman of Miss Emily's class would date someone beneath her, but many were just glad that her luck was turning around. Soon Miss Emily’s neighbors start to notice her seriousness with Homer saying, “[w]e learned that Miss Emily had been to the jeweler’s

The first instance in Emily’s life that symbolizes the conflict of the past and future in the south is her refusal to pay taxes. The story itself is set in a small, southern town, post-civil war which only adds to Emily’s symbolism. This is because the south after the civil war was on a path of major transformation. The start of the conflict is when the new generation of the towns people send Emily a tax notice her response was, ““I have no taxes in Jefferson. Colonel Sartoris explained it to me. Perhaps one of you can gain access to the city records and satisfy yourselves.” (Falkner 157). Later on in the passage, “(Colonel Sartoris had been dead almost ten years.)” (Falkner 157). Here the reader learns that Emily does not understand how the town has changed outside of her home. The new generation that confronts

Colonel Sartoris was the town mayor, he “remitted” (line 27) Emily’s taxes after her father died. Colonel Sartoris made up that “Emily’s father had loaned money to the town” (line 31), this rumor convinced the town that not making Miss Emily pay her taxes was their way of repaying her family. But a few years later, Colonel Sartoris died, and ten years after that men came to Emily’s house asking her to pay her taxes. Emily told them to check the “‘city records and satisfy [themselves]’” (line 78) for proof that she didn 't have to pay taxes to the town of Jefferson. Though the men told her that there was nothing in the books to prove her claim, so Emily told the men to ask Colonel Sartoris just before making them leave. Poor Emily didn 't know that there wasn’t documentation of the information of her taxes or that the man that hadn 't made her pay them was long dead. The deaths of these three men make readers pity young, middle aged, and old Emily, for they were the only people in her life who cared for her.

In opposition to her though, are the townspeople, or the community near she lives. If she represents Unwillingness to change, then the community represent a willingness to change and move on. “ Alive, Miss Elise had a tradition, a duty, and a care…” (Faulkner 96) It is shown that the community in that Emily had been a burden on them, but after her death they were able to move on her death. Before she died, she had not paid her taxes in awhile. “ They called a special meeting of the board of Alderman” (Faulkner 96). Unlike Miss Emily, the people in town have come to discuss with each other the problems around her house that need to be changed. She has not paid her taxes in years and all the town wants is for her to do is just that. Upon refusal to pay however, they were sent away, and they decided to handle a different problem. A horrible smell had been emanating from her home. Through a rough session the men decide they will handle the smell. For a couple of weeks they sprinkled lime around her house, giving way to a new smell around her house. Her father’s death shows another example of how they represent change, in that she has become humanized (Faulkner 98). The community looks at her father’s death, they force her to accept it. The community tries to show her change as a good thing. The community introduces her to HOmer Barron, and lather on they invite her outside family to make her feel better by providing her

Another way we see Emily using the town for her own personal gain is when a few of the men go to fix the smell that begins to exude from her house. Miss Emily is so isolated from the town that no one wants to confront her about the smell. After a couple of complaints, one particularly adamant man approaches the judge in complete distress and says, “I’d be the last one in the world to bother Miss Emily, but we’ve got to do something” (Faulkner, 518). This man represents the town in a special way because he shows their fear of her. They are either terribly frightened of her or incredibly intimidated by her or they maybe even think she is too fragile to take what they have to say, but either way they are too scared to confront her directly. Instead, they have to sneak in the middle of the night in order to avoid her.

Miss Emily was intimidating to people and they were scared of her. Faulkner describes in the beginning how for years her father did not pay taxes. After his death Miss Emily also did not pay taxes. City Authorities arrived at her house to collect and she simply stated “See Colonel Sartoris. I have no taxes in Jefferson” (145).

At the beginning of the story, Emily is confronted by the community after her tax notice is not received, and she responds, "I have no taxes in Jefferson" (122). This is the first time Faulkner allows the audience to experience how stubborn Miss Emily is in her ways and how she is customary to the life before the amendments of the town. Her residence is a big plantation home and inherites wealth that is passed down from her father. Although the Civil War is recently over and the Emmancipation Proclamation has been addressed, she continues to control Toby, her slave. This demonstrates that she doesn't want to adapt to the blossoming town around her and how she wants to stay in traditional times.

In the story "A Rose for Emily"written by William Faulkner tells a wonderful short story of a lonely lady stuck in her own time frame. Is a story told from the viewpoint of a resident of the town which Emily was, born, raised, and eventually died. The story totally caught my attention because the general tone is one of violence, gloom, and terror. The setting plays an essential role because it allows the reader a better understanding of the different circumstances. The main character of the story, which is Emily, plays the role of a tragic figure that seems to be seen only from the outside. In the story, Emily is constantly judged by the townspeople because of her physical appearance, but they do not understand what she is going through emotionally. There is another important character in the story is “Homer Baron” who becomes Emily’s lover. The story is divided into five sections made up of several

In William Faulkner's "A Rose for Emily," the protagonist Miss Emily Grierson is unable to perceive the realities of her existence. When her father dies, Emily refuses to allow people into the house, because she cannot conceive of life without Colonel Sartoris. Miss Emily refuses to pay taxes, despite the clearly false pretence used by the Colonel to justify the family's non-payment. And most tragically, Emily wants to be loved but when she is rejected, she murders the man she desires rather than admits that she is a fallen woman, who has had intercourse with a man who will not marry her. Emily has a certain ideal of who she is, and cannot process information which stands in contradiction to this image. She wants to be the pure, virginal daughter of the Colonel and Homer's beloved at the same time, but she cannot and the ways that men treat her to honor the conventions of chivalry often hurts rather than helps Emily.

Everybody in town feels sorry for Emily when her father passes away. When Emily decides to isolate herself, the town automatically assumes that she is up to something without giving her a chance. Throughout the entire story, the townspeople are whispering and repeatedly saying “Poor Emily”. They label her as “crazy” as soon as they feel she was acting abnormal. Every action that is taken by Emily creates a reaction from the townspeople. “So, the next day we all said, ‘she will kill herself’, and we said it would be the best thing” (Faulkner 85). The town gives off the impression that they despise Miss Emily, they lead the readers to believe that Emily is doing some type of harm to the community. Mr. Grierson supports the town financially and physically. When the mayor exempts her from paying taxes it starts a conflict between Emily and the town of Jefferson. Since Emily has special privileges, the townspeople are now unsatisfied. Jealousy and hatred plays a major role in why the town feels and acts the way they do towards Emily.

Which would be a really difficulte thing that you would want to do with her. In her case is really not the most reasonable person that you could think of in the moment. When one of the towns people went to go talk to her about her taxes and she was just as stuborn when they wanted her to pay those taxes. In the moment that they went to go talk to her she would kept mentioning Colonel Sartoris. Mostly this person had been dead for many years and she would think that he had not been gone. The only reason that she would keep on thinking of what this person would tell them that she did not have any taxes in jefferson. Miss Emily had kept this clear that she did not have to pay taxes and she is the most uncompromising person we could say. Which is mostly because she does not do as being told such as when she was told by three neighbors to get rid of the smell that she had in her home and she did not do as told. Now why do we not move on to the next