Miss Emily Grierson's A Role For Emily

The story about Miss Emily Grierson is one of a kind with her eccentric and mysterious personality and how she is viewed by the community of Jefferson, Mississippi. The community of Jefferson narrates the story of Miss Emily’s life. From her teenage years to her death they tell the story of the woman that was of high importance in the town. Miss Emily, a woman who was born and raised in the town is not who she appears to be. In the town of Jefferson, she held a reputation of someone important to the town. The community plays an important role in “A Role for Emily” because of how important the town sees her, how they treat her, and how they feel towards her.
First, the community of Jefferson plays a major role in the story of how they see Miss
Because her last name she gained special treatment from the members of the community. Her last name might have gotten her out paying taxes while the colonel was alive, but after his death, the new mayor wondered why she was not paying her taxes. As the narrator states, when the first began to inform her about her taxes they first mailed her a notice, then wrote her a later than when she did not respond the mayor wrote her himself. After receiving the notices, she enclosed the tax notice and sent it back. As well as, when they tried to reach her about her taxes after the colonel’s death they tried many times to inform her about the taxes that she left unpaid. As the townspeople state in the story, “When we could not reach Miss Emily we came together and held a special meeting of the Board of Aldermen. A deputation waited upon her, knocked at the door through which no visitor had passed since she ceased giving china painting lessons eight years earlier” (96). Because of Emily not responding to three attempts to inform her of her unpaid taxes they went to her house to meet