A rose For Emily-(P-396)

1. "Now and then we would see her in one of the downstairs windows--she had evidently shut up the top floor of the house--like the carven torso of an idol in a niche, looking or not looking at us, we could never tell which. Thus she passed from generation to generation--dear, inescapable, impervious, tranquil, and perverse". 

2. My Guess: Th word impervious meant full awareness or be conscious of everything bad and good that is around us, Which can be the true meaning of the word because Emily was someone who was very smart, intelligent and humble. 

3. Definition:  Unaffected by, untouched by, immune to, invulnerable to, insusceptible to, resistant to, indifferent to, heedless of, insensible to, unconscious of, oblivious to; proof against.

4. Now I know that impervious means not letting things to bother us or taking it easy or unable to be effected by.