After a few days had passed, the townspeople explored her house. In one room was a man's toilet set, and his outfit. They found the man lying in bed. Underneath his nightshirt he was rotted. Next to him was a pillow with an indent from another person's head. On the pillow was a strand of gray hair. A character's physical appearance affects the reader's feelings. When Emily Grierson, the main character, is introduced in the story she is pronounced dead. Immediately the reader feels remorse for her. However, this sorrowful view of Miss Emily soon changes. Her house is described as "...an eyesore among eyesores" (Faulkner 36). It was deteriorating, much like the way Miss Emily does in the story. The reader first knows of what she looks like when she has an encounter with members of the community. The people of the community describe her as being: ...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 a
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