This woman was a necrophiliac.
I actually enjoyed how this was written. I liked how it was all out of order and made you actually use your head to figure out exactly what was going on, however, I think that Emily's servant(The Negro) was either her secret lover or a personification of the devil, like Bingo Pajama in The Jitterbug Perfume by Tom Robinson, who is this hardly ever seen character, but when he does, this air of mystery comes with him. He's creepy too.
I thought that the allusions to royalty and to people's imagination was an interesting way of describing Emily's life to the reader. It was similar to Yellow Wallpaper because both women went a little off the deep end, and the reader got to watch, or infer what happened. I like how at the end of Emily, they found a silver hair, and of course, a dead guy.
Time is the antagonist within this novella(at least I hope that's what it is). While I was reading, it seemed like there was this specter, something...evil, or dirty. The time line was a mess, and that's why. I could feel this...creepy, almost, graveyard like feeling through the entire thing. Of course, time just HAPPENED to be the theme of the whole story. Poor Emily.
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