. . [and] two years after her father's death and shortly after her friend - the one we thought wanted to marry her - abandoned her" (405). Once again, the residents intervene to want someone One tells her about the men who were sent to snoop at her house: “three gray beards and a younger one, a member of the rising generation” (406). window with a dark light behind with her “straight torso.” motionless like that of an idol” (406) For Emily, she did not realize how the townspeople looked at her with such great admiration and admiration.