A Rose For Emily and Other Short Stories

In paragraph five, the narrator describes Miss Emily’s living room. What does this setting reveal about Miss Emily?

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The setting reveals that Miss Emily lacks the funds to keep up her home, not to mention, she has no interest in the way her home, even if outdated is presented). She seems to be almost oblivious, and yet, we might also consider that the room is being kept exactly as it was upon her father's death.... a kind of shrine.

They were admitted by the old Negro into a dim hall from which a stairway mounted into still more shadow. It smelled of dust and disuse-- a close, dank smell. The Negro led them into the parlor. It was furnished in heavy, leather-covered furniture. When the Negro opened the blinds of one window, they could see that the leather was cracked; and when they
sat down, a faint dust rose sluggishly about their thighs, spinning with slow motes in the single sun-ray. On a tarnished gilt easel before the fireplace stood a crayon portrait of Miss Emily's father.

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A Rose for Emily