Above all things, Miss Emily Grierson hates change and regards herself more highly than most of the other citizens of Jefferson, the setting for William Faulkner's short story, "A Rose for Emily." She always places herself above the laws of the town (refusing to pay taxes, murdering her fiance) and probably realizes that any mail she receives is of a legal sort which she routinely disregards--particularly her tax notices. So, as was her standard practice for change in Jefferson,
When the town got free postal delivery, Miss Emily alone refused to let them fasten the metal numbers above her door and attach a mailbox to it. She would not listen to them.
Hard-headed and resolute to the end, Miss Emily simply paid no attention to changes around her. In her mind, they did not apply to her.
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