Relation of the Town to Miss Emily

There are a couple examples in A Rose For Emily that the relation of the town and Miss Emily is predicated on the fact that the town leaders are mostly men. The most significant of these is the reaction of Judge Stevenson, when a number of complaints reach him about the odor coming from Miss EmilyÆs house. The members of the Board of Aldermen tell him to inform her she has a specific amount of time to clean the place of its smell. Judge Aldermen reacts harshly to this, ôDammit Sir, will you accuse a lady to her face of smelling bad?ö (Faulkner 240).

Yet even this example has to do with past notions of Southern gentility and mores about proper respect between men and women than it does with gender. Numerous other examples demonstrate that the relationship between Miss Emily and the town is predicated on the conflict between old aristocracy and encroaching modernity. When she passes away, we are told ôMiss Emily had gone to join the representatives ofàaugust

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