Rose for Miss Emily

As I walked out that back door and crossed the yard, I knew my life with Miss Emily was forever gone "The Negro�walked right through the house and out the back and was not seen again" (Faulkner 499). Perhaps it's best this way, Miss Emily dead and all. At least she can join her father now and Colonel Sartoris, the only two men who ever did right by her. Not like that Homer Barron who jilted her and was never heard from again. No sir, it might be best for Miss Emily to be dead, the way all these new townfolk kept pestering her about taxes she didn't have. To be honest, I was sick and tired of having to let them carpetbaggers and the like through the front door since Miss Emily didn't go out no more and never entertained at home "They were admitted by the old Negro�The Negro led them into the parlor�When the Negro opened

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