A Rose for Emily

Homer was man's man who openly said he would never settle down, yet seemed to be openly having relations with Miss Emily as they drove around in Miss Emily's carriage every Sunday until the day he mysteriously disappeared. This is the story of a woman who was perceived as being submissive, retiring, and ladylike. In reality, however, she is actually able to keep the townspeople submissive to her wishes and when she is denied what she wants, she is able to take action to make sure that she can keep the man that she wants.

(1) Although Miss Emily exudes an aura of the type of old fashioned, refined femininity that seems to submit to male authority, in reality those around almost always end up doing as she wishes.

Example: In 1894, Colonel Sartoris had remitted Miss Emily's taxes "the dispensation dating from the death of her father on into perpetuity" (Faulkner, p. 27). When the next generation of "mayors and aldermen" (p.27) were elect

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