When Emely die all the town met to go see what was going on in her house. They had respect to Emely because she was an elder woman who was wealthy in the South of the town Jefferson. Since the author always say the word “we” went talking about Emely we don’t know how Emely was really like just like the rest of the town. According to William Faulkner “alive, Miss Emily had been a tradition, a duty, and a care; a sort of hereditary obligation upon the town” (30). She was hard-headed since the Judge couldn’t make her to pay for her taxes. The deputation states that Emely “looked bloated, like a body long submerged in motionless water, and of that pallid hue” (31). The way she looked fit with her life since she had lived all her life in the old