ENG 104 Chapter Notes - Chapter Full Text: Remittance, China Painting, The Neighbourhood
20 Mar 2017
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Judge stevens: the mayor at the time of the smell incident. Miss emily grierson: an old woman who has just died at the beginning of the story; first described as a (cid:498)fallen monument;(cid:499) a (cid:498)hereditary obligation upon the town;(cid:499) Colonel sartoris: the mayor who remits miss emily"s taxes. Mr grierson: emily"s father; a controlling, egotistic man who kept his daughter. We are told that miss emily grierson has died, that she was a fallen monument, and that no one except her manservant had seen her house in at least 10 years. 1870s, is the only remaining building of a once-select street from the time, and is mentioned as an (cid:498)eyesore among eyesores. (cid:499) We are told that she was financially supported by the town, since, in 1894, the mayor. Colonel sartoris had decided to remit her taxes, telling her it was money her father had lent the town.
