Most of the story is told through flashbacks. Faulker states the story in the present. The narrator is at the funeral of Miss Emily. He then flashes back to different points in her life that foreshadow her secret that is later reviled.
He flashes back on to many different times to show the character of Emily. He tells about her relationship with her father. Then her father’s death. Emily relationship. Her boyfriend’s disappearance.
On example of Faulkers use of foreshadowing is when he tells about the bad small coming from Miss Emily’s house. He never reviles the cause of the smell. But makes you think that it was not