Faulkner On Southern Values

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However in trying to redeem herself by covering up her transgression, she broke "the law of God too, which says you do not take human life. (Gwynn 103)" It was the reverence that the Southern community placed on certain values that ultimately drove Miss Emily to murder...
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Allowances were made for Miss Emily that were not made for ordinary people. Only a community of "Colonel Sartoris' generation and thought" would have allowed Miss Emily to defy the conventional rules of society because of her heritage (Faulkner 96). Faulkner shows the extreme consequences of unchanging values and the stock put in a person's heritage...
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