" A Rose for Emily"

A Rose for Emily is a story written by William Faulkner. It tells us the history about a woman called Emily Grierson. When she died, the whole city went to her funeral. Her house had once been in a very good street, now full of garages and cotton gins. In 1894 Colonel Sartoris remitted her taxes, with the excuse that her father gave money to the city. When the next generation arrived, she had some problems with her taxes. Either way, because of her "power", she didn't pay her taxes. She got away with a lot of things, such as the smell coming from her house. It was after her father's death. Several people complained to the mayor about the smell in the house of Miss Emily. One night three people spread lime in her garden, and a week after the smell disappeared. People started feeling compassion towards her; when her father died he only left her the house. She got sick and during summer, a construction company came to the city, with a foreman called Homer Barron. He knew Miss Emily and met with her on sunday afternoons. A year after, she bought arsenic. Later the people from the city saw them in the glittering buggy. Some girls thought that it was a bad example for young people. These girls convinced the Baptist minister to go and talk with her. After this he nevermore wanted to know anything about Miss Emily. The minister´s wife wrote to Emily´s family in Alabama and they came. Then Miss Emily went to the jewelers and also ordered a men´s suit. People thought that they were going to marry. But homer Barron left. A few weeks later her cousins also left. And Homer returned. Since that moment nobody saw Homer nevermore; and Miss Emily for a long time. Since that moment the door of the house was closed until the day of her death except when she taught painting classes and when the Negro went to the supermarket. She got sick an died. The Negro let enter some ladies in the house and after this, he disappeared. There was a room upstairs where nobody entered for years; when the ladies entered they saw the corpse of Homer Barron in bed. The pillow that was near him had grey hair.