In Faulkner's "A Rose for Emily," the minister's wife writes to Emily's relations because Emily is involved in what the townspeople think is a scandalous affair.
Emily is seen in town being courted, they think, by an outsider and Northerner, Homer Baron. Homer is not only an outsider, but, the town thinks, is beneath Emily. He is just a "day laborer." She is descended from aristocracy, of a sort, at least. And the town and the minister's wife are trying to stop the affair.
Paragraph 31 reveals this:
At first we were glad that Miss Emily would have an interest, because the ladies all said, "Of course a Grierson would not think seriously of a Northerner, a day laborer." But there were still others, older people, who said that even grief could not cause a real lady to forget noblesse oblige....
But Emily, apparently, does forget her place in society, and continues seeing Homer. The townspeople then try to stop her.
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