Another conflict of the story is Miss Emily's relationship
with the people of the town, especially as time goes forward. She is isolated from the
people of town because she holds herself to be "a high and mighty Gierson" which would
have been the attitude she learned from her father. Back when she lived on the most
important street in town and her father was alive, her name meant something! And even in
the few years after her father's death is meant something -- it is why the town elders
remitted her taxes, why the pharmacist didn't deny her demand for the poison, and why
the men didn't demand to investigate the smell -- she held a status in the society
poeple respected.
As time went on though, the attitudes of
the townspeople changed. The old guard sent their children to her for china painting
lessons, but the younger generation didn't. The old guard didn't demand any taxes, the
younger generation came to house and challenged her about them. The older generation
said is was disgrace that she was 'dating' Homer, but the younger generation felt a
little sorry for her.
She "overcomes" these conflicts with
her unflinching maintance of her status and position in society, even if no one else
really sees it or believes it anymore. She sends away the men about the taxes and NEVER
pays any attention to the yearly tax notice. She refuses to let them put postal numbers
on her house. She never leaves the house at all. She doesn't reveal any of her secrets
-- they only come out after her death.
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