Can you please tell me what is the metaphor on this statment?Thank you?

Question:WHEN Miss Emily Grierson died, our whole town went to her funeral: the men through a sort of respectful affection for a fallen monument, the women mostly out of curiosity to see the inside of her house, which no one save an old man-servant -- a combined gardener and cook -- had seen in at least ten years.

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'the men through a sort of respectful affection for a fallen monument,'

This is a metaphor because it is comparing Miss Emily Grierson to a fallen monument.
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A fallen monument
Emily Grierson is compared to a "fallen monument," as if to say the woman who once stook proud and tall as a beacon for the town has passed.
maybe the fallen monument statement?
: the men through a sort of respectful affection for a fallen monument,
the men through a sort of respectful affection for a fallen monument,
The fallen monument. Is this for your homework or something? It compares Miss Emily to it, but rather than saying she's LIKE the monument (this would make it a simile) it's saying she IS (which makes it a metaphor).

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