Is Miss Emily Not Forced To Pay Taxes

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William Faulkner’s A Rose for Emily is a story that talks about a person’s status in a community and how that person is treated within the community. Miss Emily’s status as a historical figure and a lady kept the people in the community from saying or making her fix things like the smell or appearance or her house. But, what is most intriguing to me in the story is that they never made legal actions towards her to make her pay taxes. This analysis will explore Why exactly is miss Emily not forced to pay taxes or forced to deal with any repercussions from not paying taxes? With Miss. Emily being a lady and her status as a historical figure and time this happened I believe she was treated differently. Even though Faulkner’s story is set in older time period the story still has a lot to do with things like taxes and things that we deal with on a normal basis. In 1984 Colonel Sartoris made up a tale that Miss. Emily’s father had loaned money to the town. When time moved on and the next generation became mayors and part of the towns government this tale began to cause dissatisfaction. Several attempts were made to collect taxes. Every time a they got a …show more content…

Emily alone that they thought she was crazy, and this scared people. In the beginning they only felt sorry for Miss. Emily, but as the story progresses things become a little weirder. After her father’s death it took three days for her to finally allow them inside to get him. Even though this made them feel sorry for Miss. Emily this proves that she was experiencing some emotional problems. Jack Schering states that “Emily became an emotional orphan in search of the father who had been taken from her.” ( Jack Schering page 400) I am sure that with dealing with all that she had going on she came off as a crazy old lady, Especially to the younger generations. Little did we know though that at the end of the story we would find out the extant of mental

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