A Rose for Emily Versions of Reality Quotes

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Quote #4

She told them that her father was not dead. She did that for three days, with the ministers calling on her, and the doctors, trying to persuade her to let them dispose of the body. (2.13)

The story makes it pretty clear that Emily's version of reality (that her father wasn't dead) was pretty near the truth. The town stepped in to enforce his role in his absence.

Quote #5

When she opened the package at home there was written on the box, under the skull and bones: "For rats." (3.14)

Again we see attempts to tweak and hide reality, this time by the town pharmacist, who evidently, spent his afternoon and evening spreading the word that Miss Emily had bought arsenic.