Death In A Rose For Emily

The story, A Rose for Emily by William Faulkner, is divided into five different sections which tell the happenings of Emily up to her death. The first section of the story begins by telling the readers about the death of Emily Grierson. Also about how the almost the entire town showed up to her funeral, which took place at her home. This section also mentioned that no one had stepped foot in her house for over ten years, for the exception of the servant. Colonel Sartoris put off all of Emily’s tax duties because, “Miss Emily’s father had loaned money to the town, which the town, as a matter of business, preferred this way of repaying” (Faulkner, 91). During the next generation there was a new mayor appointed which caused complications with the tax paying situation. This led to the new town leader trying to get Emily to start paying taxes again. Emily would refuse every time the conversation was brought up while she kept repeating that she had no taxes in Jefferson. In section two, the story goes back thirty years to where Emily resists another town official investigation when the townspeople started began to complain about the odor coming from her property (sparknotes.com). Emily had so much going on, father had died 2 years before and they …show more content…
The summer of her father’s death is when the Homer Barron began to start getting recognized because of the work that was constructed around the town under his direction. The town began talking about how Homer would take out Emily every Sunday afternoon, “they feel as if she is forgetting her family pride and becoming involved with a man beneath her station,” (sparknotes.com, 2016). Emily goes to the drug store later in the story and buys arsenic and gives no explanation about what it is