;(Lewis 157) . “Stories that show all too clearly how airily Faulkner can reproduce the manipulation of the reader’s emotions is the real aim of the commercial short story. (Kazin 162) . “The total story says what has been said in so much successful literature.” (Lewis 157) . “Man’s plight is tragic, but that there is heroism in an attempt to rise above it.”(Lewis 157) .Emily Grierson for years has slept beside the physical remains of her dead lover and is sadly a victim of a father who dominated her for years, and drove away suitors.She is victimized also by a lover who would leave her, and by a passion, which would murder rather than let him go. “The incestuous image of the father and daughter that suggests the corrupt nature of the new south, is a Faulknerian concern.”(Pierce 1362) . When love is gone, and the lover is killed, Miss Emily clings to the illusion of love.For forty years Emily Grierson has slept beside the physical remains of her dead lover. “In her bedroom, Emily and the dead Homer have remained together as though not even death could separate them.”(Kazin 162) .“She is also a victim of her lover who would leave her”, but she is driven “by her passion which would kill him rather then let him leave.”(Pierce 1362) .“When his love is gone, and she has killed him, she holds on to her illusion of their love.”( Pierce 1362) . “But even in the story, the intended gothic touch of horror counts less with Faulkner than the human drama of the southern woman unable to understand how much the world has changed around her.”(Kazin 162) . Some people who recall the time when Miss Emily was young, remember,“When she was young and part of the world with which she was contemporary, she was, we were told, a slender figure in white, and also contrasted with her father, who is described as a spraddled silhouette.”(W...
