A Rose for Emily

"She did not ask them to sit. She just stood in the door and listened quietly
until the spokesman came to a stumbling halt. Then they could hear the invisible
watch ticking at the end of the gold chain. Her voice was dry and cold."

The Character of Miss Emily was a very odd one. She kind of reminded me of Bathilda Bagshot from the Harry Potter series. She is creepy and old. And I'm not going to lie, I definitely thought she was going to be dead the whole time (just like in the books or even from "The Sixth Sense" when the little boy is like "I see dead people" when in fact he was a ghost the entire time... I definitely thought something like that would happen). I feel like she had some sort of psychological problem even though that was made pretty apparent based on the fact that she killed someone. Also, she had a way with people and no one messed with her. I'm not sure why that is. Intimidation, perhaps? This was shown through her never paying her taxes, not allowing mail, and how she got the arsenic from that guy without her having to give him an excuse. Also, she had a servant for all of that time and there is no way that he didn't know that she was crazy (there was a dead guy in their house!) but he didn't do anything about. Well, at least to the town's knowledge. In short, the character of Emily was a creepy, controlling, psychotic one.