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"Not that Miss Emily would have accepted charity." (part 1)

Emily's character symbolizes the stereotype of the typical upper class southern woman. Therefore Emily would never be seen accepting financial help because that would be even worse than admitting the problem. I decided to put a GIF of a woman saying "I will not accept that" because this is what I imagine Emily would say to someone who offered her financial help.

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"all the young men her father had driven away, with nothing left, she would cling to that which had robbed her, as people will." (part 5)

Emily's dad prevented Emily from marrying; he chased away all the men leaving her alone when he died. I used a picture of a little girl hugging her father because that's all Emily knows and is close to when it comes to family. With his death she is now faced with the challenge to fend for her own and be alone with no partner.

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"The day after his death Miss Emily met them at the door, dressed as usual and with no trace of grief on her face She told them that her father was not dead. She did that for three days, with the ministers calling on her, and the doctors, trying to persuade her to let them dispose of the body." ( part 2)

Emily refuses to acknowledge his death because he was the only other person in her life, since she was always with him she doesn't know life without her father leaving her scared to be alone. I decided to put this GIF because when they first showed up to her house she looked "fine" with no tears in her eyes or sadness.

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"She carried her head high enough-even when we believed that she was fallen. As if she demanded more than ever the recognition of her dignity as the last Grierson."(Part 3)

Emily maintains her dignity and class even when the towns people spread gossip about her sleeping with Homer. She does not care and disregards the gossip seeming as though she would never stoop that low enough to even acknowledge this gossip. I used this GIF because it comes off as a woman that is unbothered by these rumors so she carries on doing what she's doing.

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"For almost six months she did not appear on the streets. . as if that quality of her father which had thwarted her woman’s life so many times had been too virulent and too furious to die." (Part 4)

This shows how much influence Mr. Grierson had over Emily; his influence impacted her so much that it didn't leave when he died. She will never be free from the lonely world he created for her. I think throughout Emily's life she felt locked or trapped and continued to be because she's used to it now. Emily's father still holds so much control over her life even when dead because she let it happen.

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"Alive, Miss Emily had been a tradition, a duty, and a care." (part 1)

Emily stands for a symbol to the citizens, she serves as a reminder of how life was before the Civil War. Emily does not move on to be part of the new generation. I use this image of two pathways because everyday Emily made a choice to still be in the past, it was her decision and the path she wanted to stay on. While everyone around her moved forward and left her behind.

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"When she got to be thirty and was still single, we were not pleased exactly, but vindicated." (part 2)

The Towns people aren't happy that Emily is still single given her age but think that she deserves her loneliness because her family the Grierson's were always high and felt untouched but now she became one of them. To the town's people Emily became powerless as seen in the picture.

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"the very old men — some in their brushed Confederate uniforms — on the porch and the lawn, talking of Miss Emily as if she had been a contemporary of theirs, believing that they had danced with her and courted her perhaps, confusing time with its mathematical progression, as the old do, to whom all the past is not a diminishing road but, instead, a huge meadow which no winter ever quite touches, divided from them now by the narrow bottle-neck of the most recent decade of years." (part 5)

The men like to remember how Emily might have been theirs at one point which shows how woman were viewed as objects even in their own home. This image shows multiple men gathered around wearing their Confederate uniforms as said in the quote.

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".. her house set on what had once been our most select street. But garages and cotton gins had encroached and obliterated even the august names of that neighborhood; only Miss Emily’s house was left, lifting its stubborn and coquettish decay above the cotton wagons and the gasoline pumps — an eyesore among eyesores. And now Miss Emily had gone to join the representatives of those august names where they lay in the cedar-bemused cemetery among the ranked and anonymous graves of Union and Confederate soldiers who fell at the battle of Jefferson." (part 1)

I used this image to represent because it's the only house seen as stated in the quote but it looks old and rusty.

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"The body had apparently once lain in the attitude of an embrace, but now the long sleep that outlasts love, that conquers even the grimace of love, had cuckolded19 him. What was left of him, rotted beneath what was left of the nightshirt, had become inextricable from the bed in which he lay; then we noticed that in the second pillow was the indentation of a head, we saw a long strand of iron-gray hair."

Emily unable to show her affection towards Homer she takes his life achieving total power over him and possessing him. Emily's instabilities lead her to necrophilia; she bonded with an unresponsive thing. I used this GIF because Emily did not know how to deal with her feelings like this little girl who is afraid of her feelings.