Eccentric or Crazy?

I do not believe that eccentricity and craziness is defined by the economical situation of a person. They have pretty different meanings.

An eccentric person might e slightly odd or are socially awkward, but they don’t make too much of a racket and are usually tolerable. Someone that’s crazy, however, would be mentally ill and out of control. I rich person can be crazy as much as a poor person could be eccentric. I don’t know where Miss Emily fit into the oddness scale, but I feel like she is disconnected from the world she lives in. She seems to be still living in the past. Her actions are understandable. By the social norms at the time period, Miss Emily’s father pretty much ended her future by not letting anyone court her when she was still available. Her last chance of living a normal life also ended when Homer Barron, the northern day worker, left her. After that, the only way she could find to continue her life is to shut herself from the world and life in the past, when she could still bear to live. I truly feel sorry for her, but for the townspeople, she’s an aristocrat, so she doesn’t deserve to be pitied upon. They don’t like her for acting with that arrogant air, but if they can put themselves in her shoes, they would understand that her situation is pretty pitiful.