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Eulogy For Emily

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The unknown narrator captures ever single important detail of Emily's life as if he was her secret admirer. Years past and he continues to know what is occurring in her life. I Realized that the narrator is a male character when he stated " So when she got to be thirty and was still single, we were not pleased exactly(630). Throughout the story, he explains the negative comments from the townspeople. Your brought into the scenery of her life behind the view of others. He describes the poor lifestyle she was given by the pressure of her father , society and tradition. " Now she too would know the old thrill and the old despair of a penny more or less"(630). Emily was viewed as a untouchable and picky high class female during her father existence. When her father was alive , he didn’t want her to be happy and start a family " We remembered all the young men her father had driven away"( 610). …show more content…

She fell into the pressure of tradition and custom. Townspeople during that 1870's, criticized her for not getting married and starting a family. I learned throughout the story that no matter what you do. You cant please people around you and they’ll always judge and have jealousy upon their hearts. Society around her was the main cause for her own destruction. When Emily fell in love for the first time, she couldn’t handle the lost of losing the person she loved . Perhaps leading her to poisoning her boyfriend Byron. The gross part of it all is that she slept with a dead body for years. This character in my opinion suffers through mental problems and a trauma of being left alone and losing people around

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Emily’s Mental Deterioration After getting over the initial shock of finding out that the mysterious woman that everyone was talking about was going to sleep each night with a decaying body next to her, it makes sense for the reader to question her mental state. If the reader took a closer look at the town’s description of her, they will realize that as time went on, Emily’s will power began to deteriorate. When she was young, she was the topic of everybody’s conversation, however, she did not let that bother her and walked down the streets with her head held high. Emily took over the old house after her father’s death and kept a few servants around to keep the house tidy, nonetheless, the outside of the house was not kept in the best of conditions.

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Both Emily and Robert are prematurely judged by the narrators in both stories, and the assumptions are so far fetched from the reality. Miss. Emily is perceived to be a lonely old woman, whom nobody ever spoke with. Since they never talk with her or learn anything about what is going on in her life, the townspeople begin to gossip to make up for this. They knew her father had driven away any man from becoming close to her, and they just thought to themselves, “ poor Emily” (32).

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It is clear that in her era, Miss Emily was seen as traditional American Southern women, who lived to become an inferior women to man but was later a burden to her society. She was a lady who was secluded from society, lived a psychopathic life, which at the end, and was no secret for the town’s people. While Miss Emily was alive, she lived in a secluded home of a single father, thus leading her to be dependent upon him. She did not have much of a socially engaged life, for her father drove men away. When he finally died, Miss Emily told the townspeople that he was not dead, and finally, on the third day, let the town’s people buried him (William Faulkner 1105).

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Later, Emily meets a man while he is doing construction outside of her house and they fall in love and get married. The story leads you to believe that she kills her husband with arsenic the night of their wedding, although it is not stated. The home reeks with an aroma that the reader believes is her deceased husband’s corpse decaying.

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This pushed poor Emily over the edge of insanity and led her to commit the heinous act of murder. In the back of her mind, she probably had only one thought if she couldn't have him, then no one else ever

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While Emily is alive the story tells the readers about how the world around Emily is changing and evolving but she refuses to keep up with the new ways. For example, in the story it talks about the town and receiving mail. The story says, “Emily refused to let them fasten metal numbers above her door and attach a mailbox.” (#) The town can see what lengths Emily went through to remain isolated from the changing world. If Faulkner had put the story in Emily’s point of view it wouldn’t have the same

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