But now the scholars have spoken, apparently legitimizing the suspicion that "Miss Emily's beau is gay" (Blythe 49). ... He describes in exquisite detail, for example, the visit of the deputation sent to collect Miss Emily's taxes: [W]hen they sat down, a faint dust rose sluggishly about their thighs, spinning with slow motes in the single sun-ray.... ... The narrator wants us to agree with easy self-assuredness that Emily will, fortunately, kill herself or that Homer is gay. ... "A Rose for Emily" is about, among many other things, gossip, and Faulkner, through his narrator,...

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