shows up. As if it wasn’t enough she vanquishes them as she had done to their fathers Thirty years prior to that day, concerning the smell which had been coming out of her house. One other intriguing factor which shows her living in denial is the fact that while she was standing in front of the town authorities she had a clock attached to her robe ticking and this shows she’s aware that time passed and that people were moving forward but still she remained stubborn and insensitive to her depressive situation.
Miss Emily Grieson standed as an emblem of the Old South. A lady whose praise and respectibility quickly declined as the years went by. Miss Emily’s mission was to slow down or completely stop the death of the old south.
Emily Grierson being the last hair of the Grierson Family chose to live in denial and delusion because she did not want to lose her subjectivity, meaning the idea she or the people had about her. Her house became her reflection ; she repressed her emotions, her hatred towards change had deepened her into a utopic world of delusion.
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Here is a paragraph noting on Miss Emily’s familly members :
« The next Sunday they again drove about the streets, and the following day the minister’s wife wrote to miss Emily’s in Alabama »
Here analizing this short paragraph we realize how high miss Emily portryed herslef and how she gave no aknowledgement to members of her family. To her the Grierson family was her late father and her, the rest were just random people in her eyes as that of the people of Jeferson’s town.
Miss Emily hyde herself right behind the « Grierson’sTableau » because she felt safe behind it and it also gave her the impression that all was well and that no one not even time could come and change that part of her