This happened around two years after her father’s death and shortly after the man who everyone believed would marry Emily, deserted her.Īt the time when Emily’s father had been alive, he drove off many suitors and marriage proposals that came to Emily because none of them were deemed good enough to marry his daughter. When several complaints were received by the townspeople about the odor emanating from Miss Emily’s house, Judge Steven, the mayor of the town at that time, decides to sneak in the middle of the night and sprinkle lime around the house, without the knowledge of Miss Emily.
The townsfolk thought that this was because Tobe could not keep the house and kitchen clean and thus, they accused him. The second section of the story describes yet another archaic and strange behavior of Emily, wherein the townspeople detected a horrible odor coming from her house. Emily repeatedly tells the mayors that they should see Colonel Sartoris about this but the narrator tells us that, by this time, Sartoris had been long dead for about ten years. They are welcomed by Tobe, the servant negro man and as they assert the fact that Emily should resume paying her taxes, she responds by saying that her taxes had been taken care of and that she doesn’t have any taxes in Jefferson. But when members of the new generation persuaded Miss Emily to pay her taxes and were received with no response, they paid her a visit to her house. Long after the death of her father, Colonel Sartoris, the town’s previous mayor, had eliminated any taxes belonging to Miss Emily because her father paid him a large sum of money and as an act of charity, the Colonel remitted her taxes. Thus, the narrator describes the house with such grandeur but as decayed and embodying an outdated style because the Grierson family had declined after the times of the Civil War, and Emily and her father had been the last survivors of that era. Emily is a member of the family who belongs to the high and mighty class of aristocracy.
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