A ROSE FOR EMILY 351 om
When Miss Emily Grierson died, our whole town went A Rosefor Emily to her funeral:the men through a sortof respectfulaffection fora fallenmonument, the women mostly out of curiosity to see the inside of her house, which no one save an old WILLIAM FAULKNER man-servant—a combined gardenerand cook—hadseen in atleasttenyears. Itwas a big, squarish frame housethat had once been white, decoratedwithcupolasand spiresand scrolledbalconiesin the heavilylightsomestyleoftheseventies,seton what had once been our mostselect street.But garagesand cottonginshad en- croachedand obliteratedeven theaugustnamesof that neigh-
Born in1897 inNew Albany,Mississippi,WilliamFaulknerwas a borhood; only Miss Emilys house wasleft, liftingitsstubborn novelistand short storywriter.A writerwhose work beautiful- and coquettishdecayabovethecottonwagons andthegasoline lycaptures the complex socialhistoryof the American South, pumps—an eyesoreamongeyesores.And now MissEmilyhad Faulkner won the 1949 Nobel Prize in Literature,as well as two gone tojointherepresentativesof thoseaugustnames where PulitzerPrizes and two National Book Awards. Manyof hisworks, theylayinthecedar-bemusedcemeteryamongthe rankedand including The Sound and the Fury (1929),As | Lay Dying (1930), anonymous gravesofUnion and Confederatesoldierswho fell and Absalom, Absalom! (1936),take place inthe fictionalYokna- atthe battleofJefferson. patwapha County.“A Rosefor Emily,”originallypublishedin1930, Alive, Miss Emily had been a tradition,a duty, and a care; concernsMissEmilyGrierson,a reclusiveresidentofthecounty a sortof hereditaryobligationupon the town, datingfrom whose once-stately homefalls intodisrepair. that day in 1894 when Colonel Sartoris,the mayor—he who 16 fatheredtheedictthatno Negro woman shouldappearon the streetswithoutan apron—remitted her taxes,the dispensa- tiondatingfrom thedeathofherfather on intoperpetuity.Not thatMiss Emily would have accepted charity.Colonel Sartoris inventedan involvedtale totheeffectthatMiss Emily’sfather had loanedmoneyto thetown,which thetown,as a matterof business,preferredthisway ofrepaying.Only a manof Colonel
Sartoris’generationand thoughtcould have inventedit,and onlya woman couldhavebelievedit.
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he
353
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We
all.
and
gain
van-
after
dead That
Didn’t
halt.
end
Negro
not
see.
market
little;
at
can
door
had
Jefferson.
EMILY
a
appeared. her—had
the time
her
the
been
smell.
you
in
very
you “Perhaps
Jefferson.”
at Emily.
the
were
she
FOR
in
out was
saw
stumbling
with
the
in
had as
of short
a marry
that,
Negro
but
taxes
Miss
said.
a
one
him?”
ROSE
out
Jefferson.”
ticking taxes
went
just place
to
A no
The
stood
about
in
hardly call,
by
show
and
no
would
and
the
Sartoris she
to
came
Emily
foot,
yourselves.”
just
to
have
watch
Perhaps
in
taxes
have
Tobe!” before
“I
signed death
authorities,
people
1
and
She
about
no
Miss death
me.
books Il
believed
city
to
temerity
sit.
(Colonel
satisfy
years
cold.
the
it life
away,
invisible
have
horse
to sheriff, we
spokesman of
and yes,”
fathers
1
the
the
on
out.”
father’s
Jefferson.
and
the
the
sheriff...
the
thirty
then—going
are
one
her went
sign
in
them had
them,
her
dry
the
paper,
hear Sartoris.”
records
We
explained from
until Sartoris.
man
ask
nothing a only
after
taxes
fathers
was
Emily—”
After
is
city ladies
gentlemen
the
the—”
not
have.
could
no
years.)
himself
notice
the
sweetheart the
years
her.
chain.
quietly
by their young
Sartoris Miss
Colonel
a
we
there
Colonel
voice
did
and
ten vanquished
these
to
of
they
received
go
have
her
two
get
gold
sweetheart—the
She
Her “But
“I “But
“See “But, she
“See “I
few
listened Then the Colonel
access
you considers
must
almost “Show
So quished
was her deserted after
ceived,
A man—a basket.
a
a
A
to
in
in in
the the
the
her be-
The
coal
into
why gold
obe-
note
dank
On
her
some
wrote at
in
black,
their which
a
face
by
of
portrait
offering
was
in
was
all.
vanishing
ideas,
at
lost
one
about
close,
opened
They
office
reply
furnished
mailed
Aldermen.
that
created
submerged
mounted calligraphy
sun-ray.
pieces
and
out
tarnished
china-painting through
crayon
in
of
eyes,
himself,
a admitted
from
a
was
woman
another
reply.
they
modern
Negro
long
It
door
sheriff's
went
in
waist
fat
small
Her
single
no
her
giving
disuse—a
with
perhaps
sluggishly
flowing
were
Board
the
stairway
year
stood
the
the
moved
received more
her
a
body
the
errand.
two
comment.
was
hue.
and
at
the wrote
a
parlor.
the
rose
small,
to cane
longer
its
at
arrangement
thin,
in
They
spare;
and
of
they
ceased
a
When
of
like
their
call
the
no
there
dust
which
plumpness
as
like
dust
in this
fireplace
pallid
with
and
to
mayor
her,
she
of without
ebony
first
motes
she
knocked
into
and
earlier.
the
from the
stated
her
for
that
an
faint
looked
meeting
the
entered—a
small
dough
descending
that
merely
a
shape,
since
furniture.
of
slow
on
her,
car
them
hall
bloated,
later
of
years
smelled
came,
On
she
face,
before
was
aldermen,
enclosed,
asking
generation,
and
upon his
visitors
been led
effect
It
chain with
special
dim
ten
looked
archaic
passed
a week
father.
her
a
lump
also
and
the
window,
leaning easel
or
the
when
next
A
a
FAULKNER
send
have
of
an
gold
water,
She
letter,
Negro waited
February
to
had
into
skeleton
was
gilt
to
shadow.
one of
belt,
rose
while
into
eight
Emily’
spinning
the
thin
of or
her. leather-covered
called
The
ink,
Her
mayors
would
formal
ridges
a
dissatisfaction.
her
WILLIAM
in more
Negro
a
notice notice.
visitor
paper
They
They
call When
Miss
another fatty of
tarnished thighs, faded
pressed motionless sity into
with
deputation tax on to
what head. blinds smell.
heavy, still lessons old
convenience. tax
no
her little came 352 25
for
of
355
the to
to
the
her
her the
and
she
had
Miss Miss her,
all
they
with
Miss
really thrill
back-
father still driv-
dead.
of
at
trace
had
was
that
for
on her
have
she
lined
was
no
sorry
EMILY
old
the
her
last
had even
Wyatt, they call
to
dispose
all
she
not
At
force,
that
tableau,
by to
and
the
with
FOR
custom.
house
a was
and
would
lady
really
calling
down
enough
what
back
believed pauper,
them
as
father
and
the
a
our
glad. law
she old
ROSE for
will.
feel thirty
let his
locusts know
away. believed
framed
is
last,
to
A
good
vindicated;
her
father
were
them
turned
prepared
and
that
be
quickly. background,
at
how
usual
as
We
to
high
left,
the less.
men people
to ministers
her
went
to but
of
of
as
them
quite
the
would
resort
as
have
or
too
her
aid,
that
ladies the
crazy
alone,
people
about father of
begun
then. in
got
to
nothing
too
smell
young
more
were foreground,
the
thought
and
her
got
her, exactly,
two
shadow
with
she way, dressed
them
had
left
little the the
she
crazy
it all
a
about
white the
persuade with
materialized.
a
wouldn’t
men
remembering
the
long
the all
in
penny
told
to in
in
Being robbed
two
door, days,
was
a
buried
that
completely when
she
Now
were
died,
pleased
death
people
had
or
really
and of
She
town, the
had
young
into
So
she
they
figure condolence
trying
his
We three
not
gone
at they
Emily.
and
knew
themselves
had
her;
the family
our
say
week face.
when
as
for silhouette
and a
to
we
horsewhip, father
door.
in
which had despair
after
offer
remembered
the
Miss
such. were
lawn
of
held
them
they
a her not
was
Just slender
in
if humanized.
that and
doctors,
old
her
We
that
day
we on
left
the
After
a
and and
did front
None pity
met
down,
to People
was
the
did the
That
body.
When
The
that.
We away,
grief spraddled
across
street.
her. great-aunt, Griersons
were. Emily Emily
a
clutching flung
single,
insanity chances
that
could
and
become house
Emily of
She
and the
broke
do en
cling
20
to to
do
the
she her
her
“It’s
cel-
Ste-
was
Miss
from
there
hand
smell
night
while
in
lady
quietly
if
sniffing
and
teeming
said.
younger
must
a
his
world
have said.
dark
one
the
the
properly,”
and
Judge
That “Isn't
he
to
killed
one
her,
the
crept
open crossed
in,
outbuildings.
with
really
been
gross,
openings
it
in
accuse
when
and
burglars,
the
Stevens
kitchen
said. mayor,
word
men do
They
hers
a
had
the
broke
“We madam?”
one
of
you
behind
all
cellar
to
like
the
motion
complaints,
it,
her
something.”
four
that
woman
idol.
Judge
last to
keep
the
They
in
“will
light
time
do
surprised
at
an
nigger
the
and
more graybeards
house
the
about
“Send between
to
the
sowing
of
said,
Griersons.
not
and
be
do
that
the
it,
deprecation.
two
window
it,”
got
certain
generation. link
that a
midnight, said.
shoulder.
Pd
in
me
rat it.”
a necessary,”
stop
there,
complained
were
regular
as
a
man—could
he
his
about
mighty
sat
Stevens be
a
lime
we've
her
after
met—three
rising or to
about
have
lawn,
received diffident
brickwork
Judge.
they
bad?”
another
and
but
from
word
old.
the
Give
slunk
him won't you
the he
Emily
Judge
woman,
the
so
in
it,
snake
night,
a
to
enough,”
her was
of
high
of
man—any
a
up.
motionless
will
FAULKNER
and
sprinkled
day that
slung
performed
a
Emily,
Aldermen years
Miss
It
came
sir,”
about
said;
smelling the
if
next
of
send
base
just
speak
and
of
as
torso recrossed
sack
sure
what
next
lawn
and
simple
member
Miss
who
them
and
the
a
the
cleaned eighty
I'll
a
neighbor,
WILLIAM
ladies
of
face
of
Board
door
they
“Why, “But “Just
“Pm
So “Dammit, “Its The
A
man
law?”
a the developed.
dont...” place
a the probably vens, world 354
out one
Emily’s her yard. man, something
upright
lighted lar
along bother As .
35 40
357
an
the
or-
had
was
ever you
over
over
boy
him,
box,
some
to
went
tell
it
usual,
to in
as When
at
was druggist
was
the
up
than
while
EMILY
recom—”
if
believed
clop-clop-
and
as
which
want you
than
we
back
on
the
Pd
back.
She delivery
back
“I
of
That
and
more
swift
imperviousness.
kind.”
away
one?”
when
tilted
want—”
eyesockets
anything
flesh
come
such?
look.
ROSE FOR
Negro
requires
thinner
her
written
thin,
Grierson: looked
course,”
A
Emily,”
arsenic. what
druggist.
Emily.”
kill
the
you
the
to and
good of
head
law looked
The
was
the
a
last
She didn’t
the
care
demanded
the
rats
face
he
“Poor
though
up.
what her
reaffirm ought
“Poor
to
the
a about
as
that
the
her. her. “Why,
there
she
“They'll
rats.”
For
say
as
in
don’t
it
But But
to at
“Is
if face
enough—even until
said
poison,
I
is—”
him,
and
druggist
for.”
as
“For
to home passed:
flag. at
eyes
woman,
kind?
she
afternoon
eye,
said.
high rat
want.
it
down at
the
want
visiting have.
wrapped dignity
ma’am.
was
use
several.
begun
earthiness
the
for
team
It
temples
black
were
you
strained
What bones:
slight stared
head you
her
you
of and
Emily
Yes,
a
to
a
Sunday had
eye
poison,”
of
named looked
the
package;
and her package
bought
of
just
best
what
like
what
Miss
Emily. going
still said.
touch
they
him
the
fallen.
cousins
matched
the
arsenic
she
haughty
some
the
arsenic.”
lighthouse-keeper’s
sun
arsenic?
skull
But
are
was
across
she
a
that’s
that
Miss
face Emily
her the
carried
druggist
druggist
after
look
then,
the
the
the
her
want
of cold,
want “If
you
when want
she
female
recognition
got
to
opened
She
“I
“Yes,
“I
The “Arsenic,” “Is...
“IT
The
Miss
year
upon
clop
that the
Like
wanted a two
thirty
with strained
imagine poison,”
elephant.
erect,
said.
what der
and
brought she
under
30
it
the
his
fall
the the
her
one
her
and
cuss
there
whis-
could
in
closed
work.
began
to
vague
their
would
Wyatt,
should
Homer
ago
funeral.
inter-
and
a
than
an
from
the
him
But
we
the
calling
Whenever
sidewalks,
again,
grief
Yankee—a
mules
said
lady the
between
behind
a
years
at
with
rise
bays
have
the
hear
old
square,
her
driving
kinsfolk
jalousies
and
windows—sort
Grierson
the
they
even
began
of
lighter town.
Emily,”
This
to
but of
a
girl,
laborer.”
.”
Presently
Her
saw
in
the
eyes
a
Barron,
so?”
to
that
they
would
.
paving
team
behind
day
riggers
“Poor
church
we
time
and
oblige—without
afternoons
for
groups
estate
like
about
a
course
represented
said
group.
Emily.
really
in
Alabama;
death
could
Emily
communication
in
satin
Homer
the
said,
with
“Of in
the
its
look
voice
been
no
who
When
everybody
matched
colored
over
else
of
and
“Poor
Sunday
noblesse
Miss
kin
big
in
contracts
her
father’s came
follow
singing
was
anywhere
the
said,
a
on
even
people
named
time.
them
knew
Northerner,
that
said,
What
the
her
all
silk
forget
suppose
people,
center
a
some
and
not old
there
is.
he
with
angels
let
to
would
riggers
Emily
with
of just
long
glad
making
the
you
the
had
craned
had
it
laughing
a
company
and
foreman
older
after
ladies
the
out
soon
as
man,
lady
buggy
a
of
of
those
in
just
Miss
boys
They
“Do
were
She
for
be
short,
the
They
to serene. had
FAULKNER
lot
and
real
course
and
and
soon
we
fallen
a
seriously
summer
a
others,
ready
Pretty
woman,
cut
sick
“Of
her.”
and
oblige.
as
little
rustling
began.
town
would
the
had
him
first
stable.
The
construction
families.
was
because
think to
was
heard
dark,
cause
in
WILLIAM
riggers,
crazy
still
And
At
picks.
The
see
tragic
another. hands;
father the two pering
noblesse come
est, not
not were
to livery
face.
the
of Barron yellow-wheeled
you
and The machinery, big,
of
She resemblance
hair 356 50
to
at
of
359
six
(By the
for
her
Ne-
and the
that
and
stu-
men
Miss and
sent
they
three
week
iron-
vir-
away
piece
a
which
grayer
hair
of during
the
allies
and
save
the
with
and
death
Now that
too
EMILY
up remitted.
almost were
knew color
the cent
evening.
as
fell
fat
saw
grew
And
cousins.
within
out
father
of
been
her
another
for and
we
FOR forty,
it
daughters
been
one like
Emily’s
fitted
closed,
of
the
her
and
up
spirit
closed.
had
but
after
grown
the
of along, of
about
backbone
had
boxes
ROSE
Then
years
She
day
Miss dusk in
moment,
same
Barron.
A neighbor
grew
pepper-and-salt
twenty-five
at
the
times had
lime,
was
A
all
rid
with
a
the the
taxes
went
iron-gray,
few
all
where
remained
for a
contemporaries
quality
get
the
enough,
she
remained she in
streets.
Homer
to
even
door her
her
pupils
next
were many
with
man
town.
of
that
to to
door
the
expected
became
Up and
an
so
Sure
in
the
door
we
when
rooms,
if
Emily,
vigorous
saw
on
window
Sartoris’
had
china-painting.
as
kitchen
Negro a
front
chance
sprinkled
and life
painting
back we
die.
front
a
in
Sundays
that
at
we
too;
Miss
years,
Meanwhile
children
During
her
turning.
the
The
attained
the
cousins.)
regularity
last
they
appear
on
was
the
at
to
her
generation
as her
Colonel
still
cabal,
it on
saw
woman's downstairs
and
their
the
seven
gray.
the
a
of plate.
not
lessons
time.
but see
him
And,
same
give
was
when or
ceased
furious
expected
her the
time
next
church
newer
was did until
was
to
it send
Barron
it
the
town,
of
be six
gave
it
some too
to
we
or
man.
admit
turning that
would
the
night
of
to
she
that
basket,
not
the
for
she
one collection
with
and
when
circumvent Homer
departed. we of
sent
time grayer
was
thwarted
was
that
man
did
in
And
the
active
When From
Then
her
period
coming,
that
help they days
gro Emily then
market did
months this
had ulent
hair and
gray, seventy-four an
a
which dio
grand-daughters to
for
were
spirit and
45
a
set
we we
we
the
We
the
but
call
and
that
The
had
said
they
Miss
seen
with
back
Emily
Emily's
were
as
cousins
Sunday
day
be
we
streets
sat
disgrace
clothing,
Then
Then
that
marrying
later
a
to
forced
toilet
a
been.
Miss
drank
during
We
cocked
we
himself
Miss
and
people.
next
days
married.”
he
female
was
Alabama.
him.”
men’s
not
man’
hat
ever
for
and
blowing-off,
glove.
ladies
jalousies
it
a
begun
in
of
learned
are
The
Two
following
gone.
buggy,
Episcopal—to
that
his
two
was
Barron—the
Homer
young
had
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