"Miss Emily a slender figure in white..." "...small, fat woman in black..." "...she had grown fat with her hair turning gray."
Through out this story, the reader can easily be confused about the time frame of the story, but one of the ways the writer cues the reader in, is through Miss Emily's Appearance. Obviously, she is described as young or old, skinny or plump, and light or dark. To me, the this was the best clue, light or dark. In the happier time of Emily's life she is picture as white and young. When her father was still alive, the town pictured her as the perfect daughter, a virgin that was too precious for any man in town. Then when her father died, she wore black to the funeral, and bever seemed to return to her white younger self. This is when the story startes to get eerie, when the town gossips about her killing herself, and Homer went missing. Then, finally in she starts turning gray and decrepit as the body rots, and she lives with her crime. And when in the last stages of her life, she turns fully gray. So, she was white and pure, then she got corrupted by losing her love, and she loses all feeling, good or bad, in the end.
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