Emily Grierson Short Story

Emily Grierson was never allowed to have a social life and was contained from the outside world. Her father, a widow, forced her to take care of him until he died. After he died, Emily was in denial about his death for three days. He also left her the house but with no money. Once the townspeople buried her father, she isolated herself even more into a mental illness. Emily met a sidewalk builder by the name of Homer Barron and they started dating. The townspeople didn't like him for her because they knew he didn't want a relationship and she did. Also he was known for going drinking and hangout with boys. He had took Emily's virtual which made her fall in love with him. The townspeople realize that she was buying men items which they thought marriage was coming in the picture. One day she went …show more content…
Homer was seen entering the house but never leaving the house. Two years pasted since her father passed and the tax collected came by to collect from Emily. A smell was coming from her house but no one wanted to hurt her feelings. Most of the townspeople started to complain so they sent people out to fix the smell with lime. No one knew she had killed homer by poisoning him and has been sleeping with his dead and decade body. She eventually grew old and died and was found in her upstairs bathroom and then found Homer's corpse body in her room for forty years. Marrying family members are common in different areas of the world but, people don't realize that if they have children both parents are carries of dangerous recessive genes. For example, Ahmen, Fatima, and their six children are not a normal family. Three of their children have rare neurological illnesses that are not curable. The husband and wife are first cousins which caused their children to have health problems. Twenty-five percent of cases like this end up with