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A Rose For Emily

  • Emily's Birth

    Emily was born.
  • Fathers Death

    Emily's fathers death died, leaving her in denial for three days.
  • Emily meets Homer

    Emily meets homer and people begin to see her again.
  • Emily Buys Poison

    Emily Buys Poison
    Emily purchases arsenic and people think she is going to kill herself.
  • Emily Kills Homer

    Emily Kills Homer
    Emily kills Homer with the arsenic.
  • Smell

    There was a bad smell at Emily's house, so the towns men spread lime around her house.
  • Emily gave china painting lessons

    Emily gave china painting lessons
    daughters and grand daughters of Colonet Sartoris' contemporaries were sent to her to paint
  • Ended China Lessons

    People stopped going to Emily's house for china lessons.
  • Emily's Taxes Remitted

    Emily's Taxes Remitted
    Colonel Sartoris, the mayor, told Emily that her father had loaned the town money, so that she would accept them to be remitted,
  • Tried to Make Emily Pay Taxes

    Emily told the tax collectors to contact Colonal Sartoris about her taxes, but he was dead.
  • Emily Dies

    Emily was found dead in her house, and her cousins came to hold a funeral for her.
  • Cousins Find a Locked Room

    When the room was opened, they found a skeleton of a man (Homer.) And next to the body, was a grey hair, implying that Emily slept next to him.