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A Rose for Emily7

young men her father had driven away, and we knew that with nothing left, she would have to cling to that which had robbed her, as people will. Miss Emily met them at the door, dressed as usual and with no trace of grief on her face. She told them that her father was not dead. She did that for three days. While the corpse of her father remained in the house for three days while Miss Emily refused to accept the her father was dead and that she was now left alone and a pauper, she had no idea what to do now that she was alone. She did not know how to accept the fact that she could now make her own decisions. So when she got to be thirty and was still single, we were not pleased exactly but vindicated; even with insanity in the family she wouldnt have turned down all of her chances if they had really materialized. The townspeople knew that Miss Emilys chances of a semblance of a normal life dwindled each day. They assumed because of Miss Emilys social status, and her age that she would be a spinster, and expected her to act as such. They were appalled when Homer Barron arrived, and he and Miss Emily were seen together in town. They even contacted out of town relatives to come and talk some sense into Miss Emily. They could not accept that Emily may be coming into herself, and that she may take on a personality that wasnt modeled after their expectations of her.When Homer Barron arrived in Jefferson, he knew nothing of the lonely woman in the old white house. Although he is not of Miss Emilys hierarchy social status, of course a Grierson would not think seriously of a Northerner, a day laborer. The townspeople wouldnt expect for Miss Emily to even be seen in public speaking with him, let alone gadding about the town. Presently we began to see him and Miss Emily on Sunday afternoons driving in the yellow-wheeled buggy and the matched team of bays from the livery stable. At first we were glad that Miss Emily would have an intere...

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