Emily Grierson Case Study

- You’re Honor and the ladies and gentlemen of the jury under law I announce my client Miss Emily Grierson innocent until proven guilty. As you may or may not understand Miss Grierson is a public figure to this town and her family has been very important to Jefferson and you also understand Miss Grierson backstory along with her family troubles she has encountered. Looking at Miss Grierson lifestyle we can see many signs of a mental illness and also lack of presences to the outside world. We’ll start this cased off on theory as you may perceive Miss Grierson was the one who killed Homer Barron with arsenic she bought from the druggist about 30 years ago but do you really know if arsenic was in Homer’s system or not? Or if it was Miss Grierson …show more content…
And that was the last we saw of Homer Barron.” (520). Another theory is Miss Grierson killed Homer because he as the town folks may say “because Homer himself had remarked--he liked men, and it was known that he drank with the younger men in the Elks' Club--that he was not a marrying man.”(520) and Miss Grierson became a women scorn to commit the crime. But how do we know Miss Grierson really wanted to marry Homer Barron all we know of is the time they spent together as a man and a women and only predicted they would marry but who said that their relationship was the case maybe Miss Grierson wanted a companion is fill that empty home she stayed in for so long ever since her father died. As for the item Miss Grierson purchased “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. Two days later we learned that she had bought a complete outfit of men's clothing, including a nightshirt” (520) wasn’t Homer living with Miss Grierson how do we now know that these were gifts to him and he probably died of natural