ed on the present day statute of having all agreements written down. This, therefore, shows the passing of an era and the contrast of the past and present.
             The town is slowly converting to the new era and its ways. Emily, however, is one of the last standing monuments to the past era and its ways. The narrator refers to Emily as a "fallen monument" (362). When Emily dies the narrator exerts the fact that the last monument had fallen and given way to the new era. Emily had stood as a monument for past values, Southern high society, and etiquette. She was regarded as high society and retained
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