Summary A Rose for Emily
...much about her, or her father. This was true especially for the last few years of her life. Miss Emily never left the house for anything. She would send out a butler to run all of her errands from the market or any other place. Around the second chapter the story goes into flashback. The narrator starts telling about a problem with a smell that was coming from Emily’s house, which led to complaints. The smell turned out to be her father’s dead body. So, the ministers and doctors had to convince her to let him go and dispose of him. After the death of Miss Emily’s Father she meets a man named Homer Barron. Homer was a contractor who was working for the city paving the sidewalks. Emily begins to show interest in him. Homer left sometime after the streets were finished, but he would return once Miss Emily got rid of her cousins who were called on to stay with her by the minister’s wife. Soon after Emily’s cousins left homer returned to stay with her. Miss Emily and Homer were not seen outside the house again. The only person seen going in and out the house was the butler. Except for when she left the house to go buy rat poison. Sometimes people would look into her downstairs window and see Miss Emily looking outside. Soon people began to think that she had closed off the top part of her house. On the day of Miss Emily’s fun...