, that she is exempt from paying them even years later. The town changes, its people change, yet Miss Emily has put a halt on time. In her mind, the Colonel is still alive even though he is not. When the deputation waits upon her, we get a glimpse of her decaying house. "It smelled of dust and disuse...It was furnished in heavy, leather covered furniture...the leather was cracked.... On a tarnished gilt easel before the fireplace stood a crayon portrait of Miss Emily's father"(I.1549). The description of Miss Emily's house is very haunting. There is
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