Physical Descriptions of Miss Emily

"Miss Emily had been a tradition, a duty, and a care; a sort of hereditary obligation upon the town"
  • "a small, fat woman in black"
  • "with a thin gold chain descending to her waist and vanishing into her belt, leaning on an ebony cane with a tarnished gold head. Her skeleton was small and spare"
  • "obesity"
  • "She looked bloated, like a body long submerged in motionless water, and of that pallid hue. Her eyes, lost in the fatty ridges of her face, looked like two small pieces of coal pressed into a lump of dough as they moved"
  • "Her voice was dry and cold"
  • "her upright torso motionless as that of an ido"
  • "She carried her head high"
  • "her face like a strained flag"
  • "she had grown fat and her hair was turning gray"
  • "until it attained an even pepper-and-salt iron-gray,"
  • "her death at seventy-four it"
  • "She died in one of the downstairs rooms, in a heavy walnut bed with a curtain, her gray head propped on a pillow yellow and moldy with age and lack of sunlight."
Ashley Hartzell, Connor Thomas, Samantha lockhart