ls of honor, duty and loyalty the older, the more traditional members could not possibly confront her about this matter. So in the midnight hour they chose to " slunk about the house" and apply lime to the infected areas. Then thirty years later the Board of Aldermen allow themselves to be "vanquished" by Miss Emily as they attempted to collect the delinquent taxes owed the town. The druggist also permits her to purchase arsenic without following protocol. By law Miss Emily was required to tell the druggist what she plan to do with the arsenic. She did not.
             Emily dwells in the past, there is an atmosphere of unreality created by her. And once this atmosphere of unreality is established, the reader is being prepared for " Emily's unnatural act at the end of the story". This same atmosphere allows the read
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