I don't think that it's believable that the pharmacist would give Miss Emily the poison, because, as he stated, she had to state her reasons for wanting the arsenic by law, and she clearly refused to. So by law, the pharmacist could not sell her the poison, and he could get penalized for doing
Believing he would be allowed to pay for the tobacco Melia agreed to reenter the store with Atkin. Once inside the store, Atkin informed Melia the incident would be treated as a shoplifting offense. Melia followed Atkin into a conference room in the store. Melia attempted to explain he had unintentionally left the store without paying for the tobacco, but Atkin refused to listen. Atkin informed Melia that, pursuant to Dillion’s policy, the police would be called and a complaint would be filed.
These attributes are shown her doorstep, in the parlor of her home, and her secret upstairs room. When the ladies come to give their condolences to Emily for her father’s death Emily wants nothing more for them to go away and get off of her doorstep. She uses denial to deter the ladies into asking more questions of further investigate her father’s death. She holds onto her father’s body for three days after he passes. If not for force via the doctors and ministers Emily doesn’t only have a lack of adjustment to life, she out right refuses to accept change in her life.
The town played a definite part in Miss Emily’s mental delusion. There were numerous complaints of a foul stench coming from her property and yet no one addressed it to her directly. A younger member of the Board of Aldermen suggested that Miss Emily be told to clean up her property. But due to the old southern ideals of honor, duty and loyalty the older, the more traditional members could not possibly confront her about this matter as ‘Dammit sir”, Judge Stevens said,” will you accuse a lady to her face of smelling bad?”(93) So in the midnight hour they chose to slunk about the house and apply lime to the infected areas. Lime is a white powder that is good at covering the smell and aiding in the process of decomposition.
They look upon a dead man. The man is pictured laying in bed with a “profound and fleshless grin.” (96) This description gives us a visual of a skeleton in the bed that has been decaying for some time now. He had been laid into a “sleep that outlasts love.” (96) The idea of Ms. Emily being capable of killing a person, especially a lover, is unimaginable. What makes this situation even more disturbing is that Ms. Emily had become so desensitized that she kept the body in her room to embrace and love it forever. Faulkner’s imagery creates this sickening idea of embracing a dead body.
Emily is the protagonist of the literary because the whole story revolves around her. The towns people are considered the antagonist which means that they were opposed to or struggled against Emily. Like the time when she was around town with Homer Barron and then some of the ladies of the town thought that is was a disgrace to the town and a bad example to the young people. The ladies of the town gossiped and speculated upon Ms. Grierson’s actions. Emily also suffered from a mental illness that would confuse her about date and time.
She is continually talked about around the town. But, she doesn’t know any better for the fact she was not raised in Europe, and despite many warnings by Winterbourne, she continues her behavior. Irony: In the story, there is numerous accounts of irony. The fact that Daisy refuses to take her pills, “I don’t care,” said Daisy in a little strange tone, “whether I have Roman fever or not!” p.(47) actually leads to her getting the Roman Fever, and she ends up dying. Symbolism: In Daisy Miller, the characters are used in symbolism.
This contrasts with the way that Miss Emily avoids going out and being with other people. It is first noted when the town’s peoples reaction to her death. Faulkner writes “When Miss Emily Grierson died, our whole town went to her funeral: the men through a sort of respectful affection for the fallen monument, the women mostly out of curiosity to see the inside of her house, which no one save an old manservant-a combined
She the advises me she didn’t pay for magazine and it was wrong of me to take it out of the store. She promptly made me take the magazine back into the store and advise the store clerk I didnt pay for it and put it back. My up bring also taught me the difference between right and wrong. I gave me a mortal sense of right and wrong. I wasn’t taught by my parents that stealing was right thing to do.
From the beginning, the community depicts Miss Emily more as an unwanted object they wish to explore than a recently deceased person. Part of the first line reads, “When Miss Emily Grierson died, our whole town went to her funeral: the men through a sort of respectful affection for a fallen monument, the women mostly out of curiosity to see the inside of her house” (Faulkner, 391). When a person dies, the initial reaction of most people would