Journal 75: Shadow of the Past

Emily's past has greatly influenced her life. To start  her family's social class put her a step higher than everyone else in town and makes her feel revered and makes her think that she is better than everyone else. Her father refuses to give her away in marriage by scaring off suitors. When her father died she was left with only the family name but no name and a age too old for possible marriage. She cleans onto her father's dead body in refusal of letting him die because he deprived her of so much. The town found out that she was broke and gave her pity, and the Sheriff of the time even omitted her taxes. With all her past history Emily became a "cocky" aristocrat without the money who thought she was above the law. Then when Homer was going to leaver her she forced him to stay by killing him. No a days the story of Emily could be repeated without letting the murderer get away with the murder for so long. It is possible because people value their pride a lot and there are a lot of crazy people out there with dark pasts. You never know what kind of crazy person you're going to run into and what they would do if you insult their pride.