Emily is the typical Southern woman who cared for her father until his death. Emily was raised a proper Southern lady, who is proud, protected and attached to her father. The trauma of her father’s death seemed to make her mentally unstable. She takes a lover, Homer, who is a Northerner, working on a construction project. This action alone goes against all that proper Southern ladies believe. It almost seems that she thinks of herself as above others and the law, she refuses to pay her taxes, she insists the pharmacist give her the arsenic. When Homer attempts to leave her, she murders him and keeps his body in the house with her. Many years later when she dies, it is discovered that she has been sleeping with Homer’s corpse. This is the most shocking, unexpected and gruesome part of the
Emily is the typical Southern woman who cared for her father until his death. Emily was raised a proper Southern lady, who is proud, protected and attached to her father. The trauma of her father’s death seemed to make her mentally unstable. She takes a lover, Homer, who is a Northerner, working on a construction project. This action alone goes against all that proper Southern ladies believe. It almost seems that she thinks of herself as above others and the law, she refuses to pay her taxes, she insists the pharmacist give her the arsenic. When Homer attempts to leave her, she murders him and keeps his body in the house with her. Many years later when she dies, it is discovered that she has been sleeping with Homer’s corpse. This is the most shocking, unexpected and gruesome part of the