A Rose for Emily

The short story A Rose for Emily by William Faulkner is not in chronological order to give readers a foreshadowing. The author gives hints as to what will happen next in the story. The narrator of the story is one of the people who live in the town as shown, “our whole town went to her funeral”. This has the effects of giving readers a sense of hearing about it from someone close to the story instead of an outsider. Emily did not want to lose another loved person in her life like the ones she had lost before. When her dad had died she had not wanted to give up the body of her father, denying he had even died. “Just as they were about to resort to law and force, she broke down, and they buried her father quickly”. So by killing Homer and putting him in the bedroom she was able to keep Homer close to her evident by the “ long iron-gray hair” found next to him on the pillow.