Turning Point In Emily's Life

Despite living with her every move being discussed by the townsfolk of Jefferson, nobody really knows Miss Emily at all. During the end of her life, no one except her servant had been inside of her home “in at least ten years”(1). Therefore, Emily’s public persona is derived mainly from clandestine sightings, many of which are extrapolated on like a game of telephone. From the perspective of the townsfolk, Emily undergoes many shifts of image at each turning point in her life. At first she is “slender figure in white” (26), at the mercy of her oppressive father. After her father passes and she is left penniless, she is “a girl, with a vague resemblance to those angels in coloured church windows” (30), innocent and naive. Next, after meeting