onstrued in her mind letting the blame to her strict father. It is apparent throughout the story that Emily lacks the ability to acknowledge the dead as different than the alive. Just as the words and decrees of Colonel Sartoris shall never die to Emily, her perception of the differences between the living and the dead is questionable. This helps explain the logic used in her bizarre behavior of killing Homer Barron. In regards to her notion of love, the only man who she had affection f
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