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  Emily's father died. She was in denial for three days then finally came to terms with the truth before authorities had to get involved.
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  Homer Barron arrives with the Riggers to pave the sidewalk. He was loud and cursed a lot. the kids followed him and thought he was 'cool'.
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  They started talking and getting closer. They went around town alot together.
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  Emily went and bought posion to use on Homer because she found out that he3 was gay.
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  There was a very unpleasent smell coming from Emilys house, so men came and sprinkled lime to neuitralize it.
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  Two men came and tried to get Emily to pay taxes, however, she kept repeating "i have no taxes in Jefferson, Colonel". The men eventually left without a fight.
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  Emily gives people china painting lessons before she completely isolates herself . When she isolates herself people are no longer going in and out, only her servant, Tobe.
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  Her two cousins and all of the townspeople came to mourn her. The men talked as if they'd danced with her or even courted her.
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  Emily got very sick and nobody knew because she was so isolated from society. She ended up dying in her house in her big oak bed.
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  They buried Miss Emily and after, they decided that they would search an old room in her home. What they found left them surprised.
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  They broke into the upstairs room only to find Homer, now a skeleton. There was male clothing laid as if it had just been taken off.
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  While they looked around the room that they had broken into they found Miss Emily's hair and the indent of a head on the pillow right next to the dead body. The realized "Poor Miss Emily" slept with a deceased man. http://www.nydailynews.com/news/world/belgian-woman-sleeps-husband-corpse-year-article-1.1522140