To start off.. paradox is a statement in which it seems that if one part of it is true, the other part of it cannot be true. Redemption is an act of redeeming something or of being redeemed by something. With all this talk about paradox and redemption, we see this in , “A Rose for Emily” by William Faulkner. With Emily Grierson, she was a a complexed woman up until her death at the age of 74 due to her being ill. In the town of Jefferson, things had to go accordingly, especially with a new generation trying to keep things in tradition but to also try to do something different. The town’s previous mayor, Colonel Satoris, had suspended Emily’s taxes to the town after her father’s death, because of this Emily didn’t resume any tax payments in years and the new leaders of the town wanted her to do so. They tried everything in their power to get her to do so, they’ve sent letters on top of letters, visits to her house as well. She simply tells them that she is not required to pay taxes, according to Satoris. Though he’s been dead for a decade, the new leaders of the town have no idea what they’re going to do. The paradox in this story was 2 things, the awful smell and the disappearance of Homer Barron. The townspeople don’t know what the awful smell was, they came up with all types of conspiracies about what it was. Luckily, it was a 2 for 1 bonus, they found out by going into a sealed room upstairs of her dusty house to see materials like a wedding dress and a suit and tie and a nightshirt and on the bed, a decaying body, Barron’s, and on the pillow next to him, a long strain of gray hair, Emily’s. The redeemer is in this story is Emily and the redemption in this story, I believe, is from her father’s constant controlling and badgering. Even in death, her father is a pest. He sabotages any attempt for her to live her life and get married. But she made it happen, in the scariest way. By poisoning Homer with arsenic and being with him on the other side for eternity, the way she wanted to and was meant to.