At the end of the paragraph, it really looks scary, “what was left of him, rotted beneath what was left of the nightshirt, had become inextricable from the bed in which he lay; and upon him upon the pillow beside him lay that even coating of the patient and biding dust”.
Miss Emily was aggressive in nature and possessive too. She want him by her side forever. she fulfilled her wishes and stayed stick to her principle. She seems worst than an animal. when we see kittens die in-front of their mother, they abandon the kitten after become maudlin for few days.
“See Colonel Sartoris. I have no taxes in Jefferson.” (para 12) Miss Emily think that she is still in the days of Mayor Colonel Sartoris. It shows either she is mentally retarded or still in eccentric state.
She wanted no one to interfere so she didn’t allow the mailing box to be attache at the door. And her behavior was alienating that all the town gave up on her. The town could not bear the smell and Judge Stevens could not accuse Miss Emily for smelling bad. Who would have thought that someone was poisoned inside her house.
In this story, it is third-person limited narrator. Miss Emily is a flat character, it reached the climax when town members sprinkled lime in the building. it has visual imagery and olfactory imagery.
I agreed with you. Miss Emily has strong possessive. She want to keep her love one by her side which include death. That’s pretty scary.
I agree with you that Miss Emily was a very mysterious character in the story. She seems to hide all her identity by limiting outsiders to access her house. She even refused to put house number and mail box to her house because she didn’t want anybody to contact her. Only one negro man had access to her house. She was so stubborn that she didn’t obeyed law and refused to pay taxes. When she was required to state the use of arsenic, she declined to give the statement and just kept saying that it was for rat. And the most horrifying thing is that she even loved to have dead bodies. When her father died, first she refused to give the body for the funeral and kept the body for three days. Then at the end after the death of Miss Emily, when her house was searched by the authorities a dead body was found which must have lied on the bed for years.
I agree with the characteristics with Miss Emily Grierson, she makes herself isolated from the town. When she finally got together with Homer Barron she never wanted to let him go. This also showed another characteristic that she was controlling because after she lost her father it’s like she lost herself in a way. Killing Barron was a way to always have someone by her side.The death of her father was tragic because she couldn’t accept the fact that she was no longer wealthy and missed those days were she was pretty and people had good things to say about her. It was the downfall of Miss Emily Grierson but she does remain the same throughout the story.
Sometimes its the way how society pressures people to become damaged , possesive. History shows that back in the days , society pressured women to get married as soon as possible, it was seen as a requirement of life. If a women did not get married with a man she was seen either as a disgrace of her family or seen as a rebel of society. Im not justifying her act of murder towards barron but in these situations, she was feeling like she could love no one else, she felt alone.Just imagine how she would’ve felt being alone in her home with no one to care for her. Yes she did isolate her self,she probably had suffered some psychological damage in her life. It shows that she hid two dead bodies in her home, one was her fathers body and the other was the man she once “loved”. We know for a fact that as any normal human being, if someone dies we automatically detatch ourselves from the dead body and bury it, but she didnt. As crazy as it seems, i feel bad for this character.