Rose for Miss Emily: Death of Emily Grierson

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What is a mystery? "A mystery is something not understood or beyond understanding: enigmatic quality or character: a work of fiction dealing with the solution if a mysterious crime" (Merriam Webster Dictionary 486). The narrator then relates how the townspeople perceived the Grierson family from the past...
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We had long thought of them as tableau, Miss Emily a slender figure in white in the background, her father a spraddled silhouette in the foreground, his back to her and clutching a horsewhip, the two of them framed by the back-flung front door (57). This is the silent and motionless scene of how the townspeople remembered the family from the past...
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