Roles & Meaning within Faulkner's 'There Was a Queen'

Each of the characters in Faulker's There Was a Queen, all women, have a specific role placed on them because of the absence of men in the house. The first person the audience is introduced to is Elnora, the head slave of the Sartoris household. Her role in this story is that of a guardian. She claims that she can solely care for Miss Jenny, that she "don't need no help", especially not from "no outsiders from town." When she says this, she is referring to Miss Narcissa , the woman who married and bore the son of Miss Jenny's nephew.
Miss Narcissa is the antagonist of the story, though it is not obvious at first. Her name is very close to the word narcissist, which is someone who has excessive vanity. This description plays out through her obsession with the secret love letters. Also, it is suggested that Miss Narcissa is indirectly responsible for Miss Jenny's death. As the outsider of the family, no one in the house likes her, not even her own son, as is suggested when he insists that he didn't miss her while she was in Memphis.
Miss Jenny is the "queen" that I believe Faulkner is referring to. Her silver hair is described several times in the story, as are the Carolina window panes that she first brought to Mississippi in 1969. These window panes are a symbol for Miss Jenny's own life. When she first came to Mississippi, they are of "colored glass". However, on the day that Miss Narcissa returns from Memphis, the window fades as the sun sets, and the "woman's silver head faded, too." This foreshadowing continues when Miss Jenny asks for her hat, a black bonnet that she promptly places atop her head. After this, she tells everyone to eat supper without her as she sits by the now "sparse and defunctive Carolina glass." And, finally, Elnora finds her "motionless" and "beside the dead window." Rather than saying that Miss Jenny is dead, Faulkner describes the window as dead. Because of all these things, Miss Jenny represents the life and heart of the household, and the narcissist and outsider kills it.