However, the townspeople are convinced that she will use it to poison herself.Įmily’s distant cousins are called into town by the minister’s wife to supervise Miss Emily and Homer Barron. However, Homer claims that he is not a marrying man, but a bachelor.Įmily shortly buys arsenic from a druggist in town, telling him that it will be used to kill rats. The connection surprises some of the community while others are glad she is taking an interest. He is a Northern laborer who comes to town shortly after Mr. With the acceptance of her father's death, Emily somewhat revives, even changing the style of her hair and becomes friendly with Homer Barron. The townspeople even referred to her as Miss Emily as a sign of the respect that they had for her. Although Emily did not have a strong relationship with her community, she did give art lessons to young children within her town. The townspeople pity Emily not only after her father's death but also during his life when he wouldn't let Emily marry.Īfter her father's death, the only person seen moving about Emily's home is Tobe- a black man, serving as Emily's butler, going in and out with a market basket. She refuses to give up his corpse, and the townspeople write it off as her grieving process. Her father dies when Emily is about the age of 30, which takes her by surprise.
She and her father, the last two of the clan, continue to live as if in the past Emily’s father refuses for her to marry. After the Civil War, the family falls into hard times. It then proceeds in a non-linear fashion to the narrator's recollections of Emily's archaic and increasingly strange behavior throughout the years.Įmily is a member of a family of the antebellum Southern aristocracy. The story opens with a brief first-person account of the funeral of Emily Grierson, an elderly Southern woman whose funeral is the obligation of their small town. It was Faulkner's first short story published in a national magazine. The story takes place in Faulkner's fictional city, Jefferson, Mississippi, in the fictional southern county of Yoknapatawpha. The story opens with a brief first-person account of the funeral of Emily Grierson, an elderly Southern woman whose funeral is the obligat A Rose for Emily, William FaulknerĪ Rose for Emily, is a short story by American author William Faulkner, first published in the April 30, 1930, issue of The Forum. A Rose for Emily, William Faulkner A Rose for Emily, is a short story by American author William Faulkner, first published in the April 30, 1930, issue of The Forum.
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