The Death of Miss Emily Grierson "A Mystery" The death of Miss Emily Grierson, was it "A Mystery", was this woman so mysterious that everybody in the community had to come visit her at death. The men through a sort of respectful affection for a fallen monument, the women mostly out of curiosity to see the inside of her house, which no one save an old manservant - a combined gardener and cook - had seen in at least ten years (Faulkner 55). The house was described as being a big squarish house that was slowly decaying. It reminded the town of the seventies and was said to be "an eyesore among eyesores" (55). The voice of the town identifies Emily as a "tradition a d