Rose for Emily

The story states Homer Barron liked men and it was known that he drank with the men at the Elk's Club and that he was not the marrying kind. So it's hard to not assume that Homer was gay. As far as Miss Emily being of color, I guess I didn't think she was African- American. Miss Emily was a daughter of a confederate soldier from the 1800's. In the story it talks about her "negro, leaving her house with a market basket," therefore I believe he was her slave. In the 1800's slavery was widespread in the south. The story also mentions her, Miss Emily, resembling the angels in colored church windows. The churches that I have been in, do not have angels of color. The narrator of the story is a townsperson. The tone of the story is sympathy and cautious curiosity. In the story when it is mentioned about when her father passed away, how he had been in the house for three days, until finally the doctors and minister had convinced her to let them bury him. The towns people believed she was not crazy, but was clinging onto what little she had. Emily ends up poisoning Homer Barron with arsenic. Maybe she hated men. Maybe she was bitter towards her father about ruining her previous relationships. The townspeople remembered all the young men that her father had "driven away."