The story "A Rose for Emily " novel story by William Faulkner this story happened in ( 1930 ) in Jefferson town, one of the main characters mentioned in the story was Miss Emily is a southern woman and she is so traditional, people were looking at her as a strong woman after her father dead. She kept herself in her house for ten years; people were so curious to know what is going on with Emily especially after her lover Barron from the town. town's people were protecting Emily's reputation because of her father who protected the woman in the civil war, but after her father die people around her she start to go out with Hummer Barron then she realized that he is homosexual he never can marred after that people thought she will kill herself when she bought a …show more content…
But he did not want to married because she realized that he is gay so he will never married, in the story Emily plans on buying arsenic. “I want the best you have. I do not care what kind” (page 4) this quote made by Emily to the town druggist when she want the strongest poison. This line questioned the reader what she may need it for and why she the strongest one. The druggist answers back to her, “They’ll kill anything up to elephant,” (page 4) Ms. Emily said her father was not dead, for days the ministers and the doctors were trying to get her to bury his body. She did not want to bury her dad’s body it is clear that she has a problem with change and letting go. This foreshadows her killing Homer and keeping his body after his death. Faulkner leaves Homer's fate to the readers' imaginations, but we can assume that Homer declined Emily's marriage wishes, so she decided to poison him. Instead of getting rid of the body, she kept it close to her, just as she had when her father died several years