Tommy Woo 12I
“She is the biggest problem that we have to solve in this town”. When I just became a tax collector, this is what my superior was said to me. Of course in this case,‘she’ refers to Miss Emily ____, who is well known for not paying its tax for several years. We tried and made every effort to get the tax paid by her, but nobody ever success to make it happen.So, we the tax collectors, had no choice but come up with emergency countermeasures with it. The plan was to visit Miss Emily’s house “in a group” and persuade her to pay the tax.
(It is hard to describe how I should describe the scene between in front of her house until the character sees the paintings on the easel.)
The painting on the easel was about a full shot of a man standing still. It seems like it was a portrait of Miss Emily’s father when he was a young man. As I could see the glasses on his nose and his neat formal clothes, I got to know that his social status was in intellectual class. However, in the portrait, he was gazing at his near ground, which let him looks little bit worried, or to think that he is considering a serious problem. Also, both sides of his hand was inside his pocket, which let the viewer think he is a character who have lots of thoughts and so ‘prudential’. The background was painted in light brown so makes the man the only object in this painting. This allowed viewers to focus more on the man itself but not others in this painting. In overall, it was a real mystery that why Miss Emily would place a gloomy portrait of her father, rather than a bright one.
“She is the biggest problem that we have to solve in this town”. When I just became a tax collector, this is what my superior was said to me. Of course in this case,‘she’ refers to Miss Emily ____, who is well known for not paying its tax for several years. We tried and made every effort to get the tax paid by her, but nobody ever success to make it happen.So, we the tax collectors, had no choice but come up with emergency countermeasures with it. The plan was to visit Miss Emily’s house “in a group” and persuade her to pay the tax.
(It is hard to describe how I should describe the scene between in front of her house until the character sees the paintings on the easel.)
The painting on the easel was about a full shot of a man standing still. It seems like it was a portrait of Miss Emily’s father when he was a young man. As I could see the glasses on his nose and his neat formal clothes, I got to know that his social status was in intellectual class. However, in the portrait, he was gazing at his near ground, which let him looks little bit worried, or to think that he is considering a serious problem. Also, both sides of his hand was inside his pocket, which let the viewer think he is a character who have lots of thoughts and so ‘prudential’. The background was painted in light brown so makes the man the only object in this painting. This allowed viewers to focus more on the man itself but not others in this painting. In overall, it was a real mystery that why Miss Emily would place a gloomy portrait of her father, rather than a bright one.