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Along with manuscript pages, audio recordings, and other archival materials,

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Digital Yoknapatawpha allows users to

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visualize the stories a number of different ways.

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These visualizations are available under the menu tab "visualizations."

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One interesting visualization for "A Rose for Emily," is the Character-Character Force

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Directed graph. Clicking the specific visualization brings you to its main interface.

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this consists of an "About" page with a detailed explanation,

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a "Demo" video with an in-depth demonstration, and a faceted search that lets

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users filter out specific aspects of the story.

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We can generate a graph of a story by selecting it from the drop down menu and

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clicking search.

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Sometimes these graphs can be very large, and it is useful to zoom in to focus on a

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particular area, or zoom out to see everything.

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The graph can also be locked into place by freezing it,

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and individual characters referred to as nodes can be clicked to show

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their connections with other nodes. While the "About" page and "Demo"

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offer more precise explanations of how these types of graphs work,

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for simplicity's sake we can say that they show a character's centrality,

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and the frequency of connections between characters.

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Characters who occur or are mentioned often with other characters,

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are placed closer to the center of the graph. Like Emily here

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The amount of times they occur with specific characters is measured by the thickness

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lines between the two nodes. Not surprisingly,

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Emily has the thickest lines with the three major men in her life: her father,

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Homer Barron

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and Tobe.

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These graphs can be used for getting a basic sense of the social networks in the story.

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For example, if we filter the characters by class and set it to "Upper Class" or "Middle Class"

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we notice that both groups have a number of characters who are connected with one another.

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If we set it to "Lower Class," only one character appears, Homer Barron.

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The chart underscores just how different Homer is from other people in the story.

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He and Emily are on opposite ends of the social spectrum.

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Another curious phenomenon in Emily's social world is just how connected she is to other people.

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She lives as a recluse most of her life, and yet she has many connections with other characters.

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Although more isolated her existence is rarely private, and various people

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in town busy themselves with her life. By taking these two observations together,

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the social chasm between Homer and Emily and her lack of privacy,

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we can consider just how guarded and surveilled a single woman was during this period.

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First, her father kept her trapped inside the house because no man was good enough for her,

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and then, when he died,

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the townspeople and her extended kin took over his role, and tried to prevent her from

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having a relationship with Homer Barron.

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We may wonder to what extent this intense social pressure on a woman to act a certain

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way was, in part, a motivation for the story's lugubrious ending.

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A nice feature of the graphs is that they can be exported.

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This useful for saving the different charts for comparison

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or integrating them into a written analysis, like an essay.