Alive, Miss Emily had been a tradition, a duty, and a care; a sort of hereditary obligation upon the town...Narrator
She told them that her father was not dead. She did that for three days...Narrator
'See Colonel Sartoris. I have no taxes in Jefferson.'Emily Grierson
So she vanquished them, horse and foot, just as she had vanquished their fathers thirty years before about the smell.Narrator
'I prefer not to meet him. Let him be warned, henceforth I will not answer his letters.'Emily Grierson
And that was the last we saw of Homer Barron. And of Miss Emily for some time.Narrator
We believed she had to do that. We knew that with nothing left, she would have to cling to that which had robbed her, as people will.Narrator
We remembered all the young men her father had driven away...Narrator
She would not unfrock herself of that white bed in which we had seen her lying like a girl.Narrator
'A Rose for Emily' has been a favorite of mine for many years...William Faulkner