s of will":
In the matter of the taxes, crazed though she is, she is never at a loss. . . . She dominates the rather frightened committee of officers who see her. In the matter of her purchase of the poison, she completely overawes the clerk. She makes no pretense. She refuses to tell him what she wants the poison for (Brooks and Warren 228).
In poverty, isolation, and apparent moral disrepute be cause of what the town assumes to have been a love affair with the Yankee laborer, she "carried her head high enough . . . as if she demanded more than ever the recognition of her dignity as the last Grierson" (12). The force of Emily's personality, exalted social position, and "contempt for public opinion . . . when she rides around about
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