The Yankee outsider, the new center of attention Homer Barron without notice disappears. This representative of "mechanical progression" is forced down the "diminishing road." It sounds like the entrails of a mystery, a web of virtual gossip and inevitable investigation amongst the old southern society and guard. Yet no one came, no search party is dispatched. The only constant left is Emily's continued existence, her clenching to a "rose tinted" past separated by an unchangeable fate. Because Homer Barron represented a threat, and a constant reminder of change, the community not only failed to recognize his disappearance, they ignored it.
             Emily's character is consistently seamless, as if existing outside of time. Her behaviors are exemplified in the text. For example, by the time the representatives of the new, progressive Board of Aldermen waited on her concerning her delinquent taxes, she had already completely retreated to her world of the past. She declared that she had no taxes in Jefferson, basing her belief on a verbal agreement made with Colonel Sartoris, who had been dead for ten years (16). Just as Emily refused to acknowledge the death of her father much earlier, she now refused to recognize the death of Colonel Sartoris. He had given his word and according to the traditional southern view, his word knew no death.
             This allows analysis of the relationship between Homer and Emily. A contrasting couple, Homer is a lively, social, laboring northerner, while Emily lives a wealthy antisocial lifestyle of a southern lady. It is intriguing why exactly Emily had bonded so well with Homer when she rarely spoke to any others in town. The townspeople looked down at her relations with Homer. This did not stop their relationship and it was presumed later that they got married.
             With the scene set, it should be pointed out that Emily's concepts of love, life, and death were misc...