The two female cousins came at once They held the funeral on the second day with the town coming to look at Miss Emily beneath a mass of bought flowers with the crayon face of her father musing profoundly above the bier and the ladies sibilant and macabre and the very old men some in their brushed Confederate uniforms on the porch and the lawn talking of Miss Emily as if she had been a contemporary of theirs believing that they had danced with her and courted her perhaps confusing time with its
Individuals sometimes choose to belong but only on their own terms To what extent is this true of The Tunnel and two of Emily Dickinsons poems Human social behaviour is a contradiction of desires We want to be distinctive individuals but simultaneously we want to be included in society We constantly yearn for a sense of belonging however once gained we may choose to abandon it This discord is explored in The Tunnel a short story by Doris Lessing as well as in I had been hungry all the years and