Sensory Details To Create Suspense In Faulkner's Alive Miss Emily

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There are many sensory details in this story like,"fat women in black, with a thin gold chain descending to her waist vanishing into her belt, leaning on an ebony came with a tarnished gold head." The structure of the plot story changes throughout out the story to make it more suspenseful. The sensory details of the story can make a mental image in the minds of all the readers. Words like "lightsome style of the seventies", "tarnished", and "ebony". The structure of the plot changes in the story to create suspense. Ms Emily will be dead one moment then the next moment she's alive. In the opening paragraph it says "When Miss Emily Grierson died." In the 3rd paragraph it says,"Alive Miss Emily had been tradition." The