Realism & Modernism the Triumphs Essay

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Yet, the townspeople clearly disapproved when Miss Emily began to be seen with Homer Barron, a man considered to be beneath her.

Barron was charismatic, loud, and rough, and he would have been a mismatch for Miss Emily because of his socioeconomic status, never mind that he was a Northerner and a dark-skinned one at that. The townspeople still felt sorry for Miss Emily; the only explanation for forgetting her noblesse oblige was that she had lost her mind. Miss Emily maintained the haughty air for which her family had become known: "It was as if she demanded more than ever the recognition of her dignity as the last Grierson" (Faulkner, 4). The townspeople felt they must do something to "save" Miss Emily and called on the Baptist minister to talk some sense into her. The visit was in vain, and the minister's wife sent for two female cousins, with the hope that the women could persuade her to forsake her interest in Barron. Miss Emily triumphed over them as well, determined to do as she wanted. Barron himself remarked that he was not a marrying man. One might assume that she did what she could to persuade him. One might also assume that she never said a word.

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Faulkner described her "cold, haughty black eyes" in a face "as you imagine a lighthouse-keeper's face might look" (Faulkner, 4). Solitary, serious, and purposeful, Miss Emily did not poison Barron to punish him but as a way to assure he would stay with her forever.

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As a young woman, Miss Emily probably was not particularly attractive, but she was small and slender and, as a woman of means, would have been in a position to marry well. As an old woman, Miss Emily was an immoveable object, fat, solitary and resolute in her dealings with the townspeople and the tax collectors who wanted to get into her house. In this way, Miss Emily triumphed over everyone. She stayed until her dying day in her once-fine house. Every night she put her gray head on a pillow next to the man she determined would not leave her.

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