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Miss Emily's Father Dies
"That was two years after her father's death and a short time after her sweetheart--the one we believed would marry her --had deserted her." (Faulkner 2) Picture Citation: http://ninaamir.com/how-my-fathers-death-influenced-my-life/ -
Homer Barron comes to town and starts to date Miss Emily
"Presently we began to see him and Miss Emily on Sunday afternoons driving in the yellow-wheeled buggy and the matched team of bays from the livery stable." (Faulkner 4) Picture Citation: http://www.istockphoto.com/vector/heart-icon-with-a-car-gm506881708-84442259 -
Miss Emily buys Homer Barron a silver toilet set
"We learned that Miss Emily had been to the jeweler's and ordered a man's toilet set in silver, with the letters H. B. on each piece." (Faulkner 5) Picture Citation: http://www.silvercollection.it/toiletsets.html -
Miss Emily buys men's clothing
"Two days later we learned that she had bought a complete outfit of men's clothing, including a nightshirt, and we said, "They are married." We were really glad." (Faulkner 5) Picture Citation: https://www.pinterest.com/criscuenca/mens-clothing-vintage-drawings/ -
The town sends for Miss Emily's cousins
"So she had blood-kin under her roof again and we sat back to watch developments. At first nothing happened. Then we were sure that they were to be married." (Faulkner 5) Picture Citation: https://steemit.com/steem/@michaellamden68/family-times -
Miss Emily buys poison at the store
""I want some poison," she said." (Faulkner 4)
"When she opened the package at home there was written on the box, under the skull and bones: "For rats."" (Faulkner 4) Picture Citation: http://www.dailymail.co.uk/health/article-1245809/Found-wallpapers-dresses-libido-pills-Arsenic-Victorian-Viagra-poisoned-Britain.html -
The cousins leave Miss Emily and go back Alabama
"We were a little disappointed that there was not a public blowing-off, but we believed that he had gone on to prepare for Miss Emily's coming, or to give her a chance to get rid of the cousins. (By that time it was a cabal, and we were all Miss Emily's allies to help circumvent the cousins.) Sure enough, after another week they departed." (Faulkner 5) Picture Citation: https://twitter.com/drivesafeal/status/722156554699599872 -
Homer Barron disappears
"And, as we had expected all along, within three days Homer Barron was back in town. A neighbor saw the Negro man admit him at the kitchen door at dusk one evening. And that was the last we saw of Homer Barron." (Faulkner 5) Picture Citation: http://privateinvestigator-orlandofl.com/missing-person-investigations/ -
An awful smell starts to come from Miss Emily's house
"Just as if a man--any man--could keep a kitchen properly, "the ladies said; so they were not surprised when the smell developed. It was another link between the gross, teeming world and the high and mighty Griersons. (Faulkner 2) Picture Citation: http://canadaplumbingservices.com/fixing-a-bad-smell-from-your-plumbing/ -
Some aldermen sprinkle lime on Miss Emily's lawn to get rid of the awful smell
"...four men crossed Miss Emily's lawn and slunk about the house like burglars, sniffing along the base of the brickwork and at the cellar openings while one of them performed a regular sowing motion with his hand out of a sack slung from his shoulder. They broke open the cellar door and sprinkled lime there, and in all the outbuildings." (Faulkner 3) Picture Citation: http://www.doityourself.com/stry/using-lime-for-lawns--a-guide -
Miss Emily gives painting lessons
"From that time on her front door remained closed, save for a period of six or seven years, when she was about forty, during which she gave lessons in china-painting." (Faulkner 5) Picture Citation: https://www.pinterest.com/connieking1964/porcelain-painting-lessons/ -
The Board of Aldermen come to tell Miss Emily that she has to pay taxes
"See Colonel Sartoris." (Colonel Sartoris had been dead almost ten years.) "I have no taxes in Jefferson. Tobe!" The Negro appeared. "Show these gentlemen out." (Faulkner 2) Picture Citation: http://www.forbes.com/sites/robertwood/2013/06/05/can-irs-collect-30-year-old-tax-debt-you-bet/#221b4b11563a -
Miss Emily dies
"She died in one of the downstairs rooms, in a heavy walnut bed with a curtain, her gray head propped on a pillow yellow and moldy with age and lack of sunlight." (Faulkner 6) Picture Citation: https://trivialist10.wordpress.com/2012/05/20/occurrences-before-and-after-death/ -
A funeral is held for Miss Emily
"They held the funeral on the second day, with the town coming to look at Miss Emily beneath a mass of bought flowers, with the crayon face of her father musing profoundly above the bier and the ladies sibilant and macabre; and the very old men --some in their brushed Confederate uniforms--on the porch and the lawn..." (Faulkner 6) Picture Citation: http://onehallyu.com/topic/183485-dla-shabets-career-funeral-rip-dla-shabets-career/ -
Homer Barron's body is found
"The violence of breaking down the door seemed to fill this room with pervading dust. A thin, acrid pall as of the tomb seemed to lie everywhere upon this room decked and furnished as for a bridal:.." (Faulkner 6)
"The man himself lay in the bed." (Faulkner 6) Picture Citation: https://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/File:A_covered_corpse_lying_on_a_bed._Etching_by_Ch._Chaplin_afte_Wellcome_V0042289.jpg
