ldfish bowl. In this sort of atmosphere, there is little for her to do once it appears she has been abandoned except to withdraw. Her father had chased away all her suitors, and now this new man has apparently abandoned her as well. Her father's death is another sort of abandonment. The degree to which these male leavings tie Emily to the past is viewed one way by the town when she is alive and quite another way once the townspeople learn the truth, but in both cases it is the past that determines Emily's course for the rest of her life.
Faulkner writes here about a time when peo
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