Miss Emily Change

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She is the main character, Miss Emily was a very perverse woman, atormented continuously by her father. After her father died, she said during three days “he is dead”. These is the time when Miss Emily started the negation of the change in the world.

Miss Emily was raised in heart of an aristocratic family. These story was told after the Civil War. The writer felt influence of the time and he reflect the pride, the negation to change, to the loss of established social differences in southern and northern America.

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