Jefferson Cemetery Monuments in The Town (Location)

The marble "colyum" (to quote Ratliff, 371) that Flem Snopes erects in the town cemetery to Eula betrays not just the truth but the greatness of his wife, especially the epitaph that Flem has inscribed upon it: "A virtuous Wife is a Crown to her Husband," etc. (372). But Eula's daughter Linda and Gavin Stevens, her would-be champion, redeem this act of hypocrisy and tastelessness by finding "the right photograph" of her face and sending it to Italy "to be carved into a medallion to fasten onto the front of the monument" (366). Ratliff, not noted for sentimentality, is genuinely moved by this image of her when it's finally in its ordered place.