Eulogy For Emily Death

She chooses death over life by means of intercepting herself from the external world and lingered in an elusive sphere where her father and Homer both were lodged even though lifeless .Death is to be found more controllable and reliable for her than a life which is full of uncertainties. Her decaying appearance is the outcome of life she inhabit surrounded with Skelton ,dead beliefs, dust, ashes and past memories. Faulkner applied the description of her look to illustrate variations in her transitional psychotic condition from a young maiden of thirties with hope and happiness to an embittered older woman. As the fiction open up the narrator termed her “a fallen monument” and certainly she is not considered as a living creature by the townspeople.

. . Then they could hear the invisible ticking at the end of the gold chain . . . Her voice was dry and cold”, The figures of death emerged most frequently: her pallid complexion; her drowned, bloated body; her lost eyes; and the cold, dry voice. Not only had Emily been living with death literally in the form of Homer's corpse, although something essential had died inward her. Death prevails in her appearance, in her attitude, in her archaic shape calligraphy in faded ink and moreover in her decayed house. For Emily, time and its inescapable shifts had died as the watch had faded vaguely into her belt. The final portrait describes that Emily herself became, metaphorically, a living corpse. Faulkner himself pitied with Miss Emily as he didn’t portrayed her as snobbish, elite southern women but as a victim of fate who drove into insanity by whatever happened to her. Time is not being remained as a calculated progression for Emily as her life in the fantasy sphere endured unstirred by reality. Her recurring posture in the window represents a picture of history.