In the beginning, the Board of Alderman deputation to Miss Emily’s house regarding her taxes in Jefferson. As the deputations enter, the narrator describes the smell of the house. “It smelled of dust and disuse—a close, dank smell”(Faulkner 32). The smell is mentioned persistently throughout the story, however; the foreshadowing occurs the most after the encounter with the deputations. “She vanquished them… just as she had before about the smell”(Faulkner 33). Apparently the Board of Alderman sent another member to Ms. Emily’s house two years after her father’s death to complain about the smell. Ironically the board was sent shortly after her sweetheart supposedly disappeared. “This was two years after her father’s death and a short time
