A Rose for Emily

The narrator of A Rose for Emily is a townsperson. He/She seems to be just overlooking the story but knows a lot about Emily. The fact that it is told out of order is very interesting to me and kept me reading through the whole thing. I like that there is foreshadowing and irony like on page 210 “So she vanquished them, horse and foot, just as she had vanquished their fathers thirty years before about the smell. That was two years after her father’s death and a short time after her sweetheart- the one we believed would marry her- had deserted her.” The smells is foreshadowing for the Homers body, which is not told until the end. And the Irony in the man who had deserted her even thought Emily made sure the desertion did not happen. She was afraid he would leave her just as her father did. Emily kills Homer and keeps him in a bed. She lies with him and almost seems to cherish him. I believe Emily felt an extreme lose from losing her father, but in turns kills Homer to keep him from leaving her.