You may ask: How can a creepy old murderous lady have dignity? But it's not so much that she gained or achieved dignity by being a good, moral person, it's more that she was just granted the dignity of being Miss Emily Grierson. Faulkner also gives dignity to this story of a reclusive city. She was a noble, wealthy white woman who had not married. This made her less dignified, but when people discovered that she had killed her lover to be with him, it restored Miss Emily to a disturbing dignity. The fact that she didn't kill herself was also another dignified thing. Because she already lacked so much dignity as an unmarried white woman at the time of the Civil War, after her death she slowly began to regain her dignity. But it didn't really matter, because the only person he would hit was Miss Emily herself. Yang discusses Emily's social position, "...the community's strong opposition and interference, closely examines the link between her high social position and her tragic end, and highlights that Emily, instead of living a life of her own, carries out functions as a symbol of a system and a culture and acts as a spiritual pillar in support of the disintegrating Old South. In carrying out this great mission, it pays an enormous price, because as an idol worshiped by the community, it must be strictly limited by the norms of the Old South and must