, never to be seen again. Miss Emily retreats inside her home and is not seen for six months. The townsfolk assume this is because she is still being controlled psychologically by the memory of her father: ôThen we knew that this was to be expected too, as if that quality of her father which had thwarted her womanÆs life so many times had been too virulent and too furious to dieö (Faulkner 626).
Because of her father, Miss Emily has given her freedom away. With Homer Barron, she gave her heart away. We discover that her desperation for finding love in the midst of her controlling environment has driven her to homicide. At the end of the story the corpse of Homer Barro
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