![]() ![]() ![]() This style can be read in the introduction to this passage in the three-way description that Faulkner applied to Emily’s character, a tradition, a duty, and a care. He introduces Emily in a style both elegant and formal. In this passage, William Faulkner introduces his main character, Miss Emily Grierson. “Alive, Miss Emily had been a tradition, a duty, and a care: a sort of hereditary obligation upon the town, dating from that day in 1894 when Colonel Sartoris, the mayor – he who fathered the edict that no Negro woman should appear on the streets without an apron – remitted her taxes, the dispensation dating from the death of her father on into perpetuity.” (page 76) ![]() How do we learn about Emily? How do reports and rumors about her create the narrative of her life? ![]()
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