To Kill A Mockingbird Essay: The Character Of Miss Emily
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Later in the story we notice that Miss Emily has found herself a lover :
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“A foreman named Homer Barron a Yankee-a big, dark, ready man, with a big voice and eyes lighter than his face. (124)
Presently we began to see him and Miss Emily on Sunday afternoons driving in the yellow-wheeled buggy and the matched team of bays from the livery stable.” (124)
As people of the town watched Homer and Miss Emily together they did not really know what to think. The people of Jefferson seemed lost and felt degraded, because they felt that Miss Emily was embarrassing herself and the town because of the way she carried herself with Homer Baron in public.
Miss Emily symbolyzed cultural values, values which had survived