about the strange smell which arises from Emily’s house. They just give a lime around her house quietly and Emily does not know about that.
So the next night, after midnight, four men crossed Miss Emily’s lawn and stunk about her house like burglars, sniffing along the base of the brick
work and at the cellar openings while one of them performed a regular sowing motion with his hand out of a sack slung from his shoulder. They
broke open the cellar door and sprinkled lime there, and in all the outbuildings 309.
Her social status as a person, who is honored by people on her town, can also be seen from the people’s care towards her when she passed away. In her funeral, all
people in her town come to give their last respect to her. It can be seen as follows: When Miss Emily Grierson died, our whole town went to her funeral. The
men through a sort of respectful affection for a fallen monument, the women mostly out of curiosity to see the inside of her house, which no one
save an old manservant—a combined gardener and cook—had seen in at least ten years p.307.
b. Physical Appearance
Emily is an old woman who is small but has a fat body. The author also describes that Emily’s skeleton is small and looks like unbalanced because her
body is obese. Emily has small eyes and they are lost in the fatness of her face. People assume that she is a bit eccentric. Actually, the author explains very little
about Emily’s physical appearance. They rose when she entered—a small, fat woman in black, with a thin gold
chain descending to her waist and vanishing into her belt, leaning on an ebony cane with a tarnished gold head. Her skeleton was small and spare;
perhaps that was why what would have been merely plumpness in another was obesity in her. She looked bloated, like a body long submerged in
motionless water, and of that pallid hue. Her eyes, lost in the fatty ridges of her face, looked like two small pieces of coal pressed into a lump of
dough as they moved from one face to another while the visitors stated their errand 308.
c. Personality traits 1. Affectionate
Emily has affection to her parents. She loves her parents very much. Her love to her parents can be shown when her father passed away. The death of
Emily’s father affects her condition. She suffers from a loss. After her father passed away, she goes out very little, because she wants to give an honor for her
father’s death p.308. She just goes to her father’s grave to pray for the peacefulness of her father. Emily affection can be proven through her respect to
her father who has passed away. She still gives her attention to her father’s grave. She wishes happiness for her father.
2. Stubborn
When Emily buys some poison in the drugstore, she wants to defend her opinion when she has a dialogue with the druggist. Although the druggist has
recommended some poisons to her, Emily still wants to buy arsenic, whereas the law requires people to tell the use of it, but she does not want to do that. Emily
never agrees with someone’s opinion, she likes arguing to defend her opinion. Her way to defend her opinion and her behavior who does not like to hear others’
comment show that Emily is a stubborn person. “Yes, Miss Emily. What kind? For rats and such? I’d recom—“
“I want the best you have. I don’t care what kind.” The druggist named several. “They’ll kill anything up to an elephant. But
what you want is—“ “Arsenic,” Miss Emily said. “Is that a good one?”
“Is…arsenic? Yes ma’am. But what you want—“ “I want arsenic” p.310.
