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Emily Mental State Was or Was Not Impaired

Miss Emily was referred to as a "fallen monument" in the story (William

Faulkner). She was a "monument" of Southern gentility, an ideal of past values but fallen

because she had shown herself susceptible to death (and decay). The description of her

house "lifting its stubborn and coquettish decay above the cotton wagons and the gasoline

pumps--an eyesore among eyesores" represented a juxtaposition of the past and present

and was an emblematic presentation of Emily herself (William Faulkner).

The house smells of dust and disuse and has a closed, dank smell. A description

of Emily in the following paragraph discloses her similarity to the house. "She looked

bloated like a body long submerged in motionless water, and of that palled hue"

(William Faulkner). But she had not always had that appearance. In the picture of a

young Emily with her father, she was frail and apparently hungering to participate......

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