Miss Emily has no close friends and she rarely leaves her
house except during the short time that she was being courted by Homer Barron. We do
know that many people in Jefferson think that
... the Griersons held themselves a little too
high for what they really
were.
People in Jefferson
thought of her as a "fallen monument" and a
"curiosity."
Alive, Miss Emily had been a tradition, a duty
and a care; a sort of hereditary obligation upon the
town...
When the authorities
came to her home to collect back taxes, she was rude and unfriendly, ordering her
servant, Tobe, to show them the way out. Others were happy that she had become
"humanized" after her father's death, and they "felt sorry for her" after the episode of
"the smell." The townspeople knew that insanity ran in the family,
but
We did not
say she was crazy then.
When
Emily began seeing Homer, some people were happy for her, but they soon began whispering
that "she was fallen." They believed that she
... demanded more than ever the recognition of
the dignity of being the last
Grierson...
Yet they held out
hope that she would eventually persuade Homer to marry her. But when the two were seen,
unchaperoned, on Sundays, the believed that
... it was a disgrace to the town and a bad
example to the young
people.
Following her death,
she was remembered fondly by the older members of the
town,
...
talking as if she had been a contemporary of theirs, believing they had danced with her
and courted her, perhaps.
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