How we cite our quotes: Citations follow this format: (Section.Paragraph)
Quote #4
None of the young men were quite good enough for Miss Emily and such. (2.11)
In this line the narrator gives us both the vicious clucking of the town, and their assessment of her father's control of Emily. These factors work together toward Emily's withdrawal from the world.
Quote #5
From that time on her front door remained closed, save for a period of six or seven years, when she was about forty, during which she gave lessons in china-painting. (4.5)
Was there hope for Emily here? Her former students are the ones keeping their children away from her. Perhaps those china-painting lessons were scary and creepy. Perhaps the waft of death reached them and allowed them to put together the bits of whispered gossip they heard around town.