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A Rose For Emily

"A Rose for Emily" is the story of an eccentric spinster, Emily Grierson. An unnamed narrator details the strange circumstances of Emily's life and her odd relationships with her father, her lover, and the town of Jefferson, and the horrible secret she hides.When news of Miss Emily's death spreads, a group of ladies from the town arrives at Miss Emily's door and is briefly greeted by Tobe, who lets them in and immediately proceeds to walk out the back door, never to be seen again. A funeral is held two days later, with several of the men wearing their newly brushed Confederate uniforms.
After her father's death, Miss Emily disappeared from public site for a long time, and when she reemerged, Jefferson had just started paving its sidewalks. HomerNew Characters
Miss Emily's Cousins: At the request of the Baptist minister's wife, cousins from Alabama arrive and move in with Miss Emily, presumably to help her out.

Miss Emily sends the deputation away, just as she had sent a similar party away thirty years earlier when neighbors had begun to complain to the town about a "smell" that had risen from Miss Emily's property. The smell was noticed two years after Miss Emily's father's death,After Miss Emily had requested rat poison from the druggist, the town assumed that she was planning her own suicide. The facts of her relationship with Homer Barron, a Northerner, was too great a disgrace in the town's eyes, and suicide seemed a viable option. Although Miss Emily and Homer were seen regularly on Sunday afternoons, the town was uncertain that Miss Emily would kill herself.

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