Yoknapatawpha County’s customs exhibit examples of sexism. During this story, the setting illustrates a time when people treat women and men differently. When Miss. Emily’s father passes away, and the townsmen remit her taxes, “Only a man of Colonel Sartoris’ generation and thought could have invented it, and only a woman could have believed it” proving the characters from this story degrade women and see them as inferior to men (Beers and Odell 721). “Just as if a man- any man- could keep a kitchen properly,’ the ladies said” is another example of sexism by showing how the ladies in the story feel towards men working in a kitchen (Beers and Odell 723). This example however, shows that men can not do something that women can, and suggests
