... but Miss Emily's house remains. A further look at Miss Emily's life, we realize the importance of the setting in which the story takes place. The house in which she lives remains static and unchanged as the town progresses. Inside the walls of her home, Miss Emily conquers time and progression. In the first section, Faulkner takes us back to the time when Miss Emily refused to pay her taxes. She insists that she has no taxes in Jefferson and completely rejects her responsibility to the town by telling them, "I have no taxes in Jefferson" (533). The men are "...brought to a stumbling halt and can do nothing when confronted with her refusal to engage in rational discourse" (Judith Fetterley 562). As the town changes and its people change, Miss Emily has been able to put a halt on time. In her mind, the Colonel is still alive although ...

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