A Rose for Emily

In the story, A Rose for Emily, I believe the narrator is a "towns person(s)". This influences the story's development because it is a person(s) looking back on Emily's life. To me, when people are telling a story of the past, the order is not always chronological. Remembering one thing may bring up a reminder or an example of something else.
At the time of Emily's father’s death, she had a hard time coming to terms with him being dead. She was unwilling to let him go. Any man who had come into Emily's life had been driven away by her father. Now, he too had left her. Emily became interested in Homer, a "Northerner, a day laborer." (Pg 209), the summer after her fathers death. The town’s people began to feel that Emily and Homer were living in sin and were setting a bad example. The town’s people, sticking their nose in Emily's business, began to persist her and Homer get married. The story of course does not talk about Emily's view, but I feel she began to try and persuade Homer into marriage, only to be denied because Homer was homosexual. "... Homer himself had remarked- he liked men, and it was known that he drank with younger men in the Elks' Club ..." (Pg. 210 paragraph 43). Emily, not only wanting to keep her pride, but Homer as well, turned to murder. Unlike her father's corpse, no one was there to try and take away Homer's rotting body. So she kept him, all to herself.