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and refuses to change. This short story explains Emily, her mystified
ways and the townsfolk's sympathetic curiosity.
The plot of the story is mainly about Miss Emily's attitude about
change. "On the first of the year they mailed her a tax notice. February came
and there was no reply. They wrote her a formal letter asking her to call the
sheriff's office at her convenience. A week later the mayor wrote her
herself, offering to call or to send his car for her, and received in reply a
note on paper of an archaic shape, in a thin, flowing calligraphy in faded
ink, to the effect that's he no longer went out at all. The tax notice was
enclosed, without comment." (189). Miss Emily was convinced that she had no
taxes in Jefferson because before the Civil War the South didn't have to pay
taxes and since her father had made a contribution to the town of a generous
amount, Colonel Sartoris, mayor at that time had remitted her taxes, she felt
that that promise or rather g...

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