In "A Rose for Emily," comment on what the neighbours complain about and the response of Judge Stevens.

This part of this excellent Southern Gothic tale comes in
the second section. The passage refers to the increasing isolation of Miss Emily after
her beau left her, and the way that she is left alone in her house with nobody but her
Negro servant. Thus it is that when a "smell" develops the neighbours are hardly
surprised, as they comment that a man such as her servant would never know how to keep a
kitchen properly. However, note how Judge Stevens puts off any intervention in this
matter:

"It's
probably just a snake or a rat that nigger of hers killed in the yard. I'll speak to him
about it."

What is
interesting is the way that Miss Emily constructs around herself an aura of
impenetrability and an untouchable nature that causes the society of which she is a part
to remain distant and aloof from her. This, of course, increases the mystery of the
story as we share the intense and ravenous curiousity of her neighbours as they wonder
and speculate about her character, actions and motives, but also arguably shows how the
neighbours saw her as an object of curiosity alone and not as another human being who
needed help, consolation and comfort.