The story begins on a sad note with the members of the town attending her funeral. The narrator tells a morbid story of the strong willed Miss Emily who had cut herself off from her community. Few had ever seen Miss Emily but many told stories after her death. This story put a strong definition to what love can motivate us to do.
             1) Emily's, "Vigorous iron-gray, like the hair of an active man," give us a description of her personality. She is enormously proud and stubborn. When the city authorities come to ask her to pay her taxes she replies, "I have no taxes in Jefferson." Her constant reiteration of this fact looms over the town of Jefferson and its new city authority showing her mulish side. As years pass she deteriorates from a once "slender figure" to having people in the town comment that, "she had grown fat."
             These images show us that Miss Emily is in a weakened condition. We can draw up a picture of an old round hag with nappy gray hair who hasn't seen sunlight in years. The description of her appearance sounds like a witch costume you'd wear for Halloween
             2) Homer represents Emily's object of affection, but it was this affection itself that he could never return, "Homer himself had remarked- he liked men,"
             Emily embodies a woman slowly dying. She goes through stages, each being more depressing than the last. When she bought poison the people of the town thought, "she will kill herself."
             3) The ideas and thoughts of the story are constantly being retold every time we see Miss Emily's stage worsen. In the beginning she will at least leave the house to run errands and go on trips of that nature, but in the end the only thing coming in and out of that back door is her nameless servant with a basket to the market. When the story is broken down we can basically see that with out love Miss Emily is hope
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