And show us how their background as in where they came from had impacted their living in the society as Southern aristocrats who had a lot of fortunes, yet lost most or all of it to the cause of the Civil War. Even with all their fortunes gone, both father and daughter lived proudly as who they were as in they looked down to people who did not meet the aristocrat way as Emily’s father looked at. And they repudiate man of the town who had took interest in Emily, and would think or took action in having a relationship with Emily or even ask her hand in marriage her father would step in and deny them all.
Toward the starting of the middle of the story, we learn about the death of Emily’s father. And how she remained the way as if her father had never died as if he is still alive with her. Emily acted as if nothing happens; she expressed no emotions. Homer Barron who was a contractor paving the streets of her hometown, had arrived soon after Emily's father's death. As Emily got to know more about Homer Barron she grew to more fond of