In part two, the narrator further elaborates upon the collective pity the town felt for Emily once her father died. All her father had left behind was the house. When people stopped by to express their condolences about her father's death, Emily told them that her father was not dead. Eventually there was a strange odor that emanated from Emily's house. Faulkner alludes to the possibility that Emily had kept her father's corpse in her home. The narrator confides, 'We did not say she was crazy then. We believed she had to do that. We remembered all the young men her father had driven away, and we knew that with nothing left, she would have to cling to that which had robbed her, as people will.'