What do you do when you think you have found the love of your life but it is denied from you? Miss Emily Grierson forced her beloved to stay with her until her death, and author William Faulkner told her morbid tale with suspense derived from both the setting of the story and the story's plot structure. Faulkner uses the setting of the story to add a foreboding tone to the story. When the deputation visits Miss Emily about her taxes, they enter a "dim hall," that "smelled of dust and disuse-a close, dank smell." This description shows the decrepit state of Miss Emily's home, and it gives the reader a sense of death. When the people of the town visit Miss Emily's home after her death, Faulkner wrote that "we knew that there was one room in