ression her entire life, finally breaking free of the limiting values her father and patriarchal social forces have placed upon her by murdering Homer Barron and ensuring their ôeternalö love to spite societyÆs values.
Miss Emily represents a dying way of life in the south. She also represents the values of the idealized southern woman of the past. Miss Emily represents the values of the male dominated old South, one in which women were submissive to their fathers and husbands in all matters and adhered to rigidly defined gender roles and rules on expression and behavior. We see this when the townswomen comment on criticism of Miss EmilyÆs kitchen, ôJust as if
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