In "A Rose for Emily" what is the relationship between the individual, Miss Emily, and the community?

Miss Emily is regarded by her community as a fascinating,
old celebrity.  She is part of the now extinct "old blood" of the South, of those
wealthy families that used to be revered and respected because of the generations of
wealth and status that they held. But with the demise of slavery, and the rise of the
middle class in America, such reverence for those old families slowly dwindled away, and
Miss Emily was the only thing that was left.  She was regared by them as an ancient
relic, like something in a museum, to be looked upon and wondered at.  During her
younger years, the townspeople followed her about much like a discredited celebrity,
hungry for gossip and opportunities to spread rumors and share in her life.  It reminds
me of old celebrity have-beens that the paparazzi still follow around simply to report
the sordid details of their crumbling lives.  The townspeople had the same sense of
judgment too; when our favorite celebrity cheats on their spouse, we are upset, we feel
angry, and think they should have behaved better.  The townspeople feel this way about
Emily as she starts hanging around Homer Barron; they are curious and judgmental, and
even intervene a bit, as far as they can.  And, as the townspeople are the ones
narrating this story (it is told, uniquely, from their perspective), we get a good feel
for their attitudes and fascination.

Miss Emily doesn't
really regard the townspeople at all.  They are not worth her consideration, and when
they do occasionally step in to try to disrupt her world, she chases them off,
maintaining her isolated and skewed perspective of the world that she lives in, where
she remains royalty, and the peons of the earthe are below
her.

I hope that those thoughts helped; good
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