With regards to Miss Emily and her relationship to the townspeople, repeated images of isolation that reveal a subsequent sense of separation and the confusion of identity, are expressed through the narrator’s description of ‘tableau.’ In the same manner that a tableau is “a representation,” the townspeople, similarly, have only a portrayal of Miss Emily’s character and this is seen through textual references made to her in silhouette (Faulkner 1350). Like a silhouette, Miss Emily’s identity is “an outline” to which the town lacks a complete image (OED 1). This deficit to clear characterization is created through the withdrawal of Miss Emily into her house where she goes unseen for “sometime” in public. (Faulkner 1352). In this retraction from
