In the story "A Rose for Emily," Miss Emily is a southern
belle antiqued by time and separated from the world by her own pride. She had been the
pride of her father who believed no man would have ever been good enough for her to
marry.
After the death of her father she is left alone and
without funds. She teaches porcelain painting to bring in some money, but continues to
hold her head high as if undaunted by her
circumstances.
Emily falls for a man who comes to town.
The town anticipates that he will marry her. He disappears and is believed to have left
town.
After Miss Emily dies the townspeople go to see her
home. She had not allowed anyone in it for years. Inside they find the corpse of a man
with an iron gray hair on the pillow beside it. Miss Emily hid her lover whom the story
implies that she killed so he would not leave her.
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