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A 3 page original analysis of the characterization of Emily Grierson in this famous short story. The paper takes the approach that within her internal frame of reference, Emily's action conform to her own sense of morality and speculates on the causes of such a warped sense of reality.
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for a demon-or a corpse. 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...(Faulkner) After cold-bloodedly murdering Homer Barron, she keeps his body in a rose-colored bridal
chamber and, one is led to believe, sleeps with it for the rest of her life. How positively gruesome! The reader shutters in disgust; yet, Faulkner goes to great
pains to infer that Emily is the victim. Within the context of her inner world-an insane one, admittedly-Emily adheres to her own moral code showing considerable courage as
she attains her hearts desire and her revenge at the same time. Emily is clearly the victim of abuse at the hands of her father. Faulkner makes this clear throughout
the story. The striking tableau that has sunk into the psyche of the town is one example. Emily is framed in the doorway with her father standing between her and
the outside world with a horsewhip. Another is, perhaps, the unexplained reason that Colonel Sartoris remitted her taxes. Why? One wonders. Dark secrets are inferred. That her father
suppressed her sexuality and thwarted her womans life is clearly stated. The town assumes that this is from a stand point of pride, no young man is good enough for
her, but the towns people are shown to be wrong again and again. Darker things are implied. The possibility of child abuse creeps out of the readers subconscious which
also makes the reader question the circumstances of the fathers death. When her father dies, Emily denies that he is dead just as later she must have denied to herself
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