A Rose For Emily

The narrator of the story is a citizen of the town that Emily is a resident of. This person being the narrator shows more how he\she feels about Emily and the things she said and did. The narrator actually says she was “a duty, and a care; a sort of hereditary obligation upon the town.”(pg. 209, paragraph three, line one.) The order jumps back and forth from present to past and then back to the present. It starts by saying they are going to attend Emily’s funeral and then goes back to tell about who she is and how she has acted. It then comes back to them attending her funeral and going through her house because no one had seen the inside of her house in nearly ten years.
Emily uses arsenic to poison Homer because he won’t be with her because he is gay. So she decides to make it appear as if they are getting married and then poisoned him and left him in the bed. She then continued to sleep in the same bed with his dead and decaying body. The people looking through the house find something more disturbing than the body of Homer in bed and he\she says, “Then we noticed that in the second pillow was the indentation of a head.”(pg. 215, paragraph fifty, line one.) They then found one of her iron gray hairs on the pillow suggesting she had been sleeping in the bed with his corpse recently. She decided that she wanted him because her father was not around to run him off, but with him being gay she had to take drastic measures to be sure she could keep him to herself.