A Rose for Emily

A Rose for Emily is a short story written by William Faulkner. The narrator of the story are the people of the town because throughout the story the narrator said, "our whole town went to her funeral" (206) and "We did not say she was crazy then." (208). Also, people explained things about Emily's life situations that occurred. The story is not written in chronological order which also hints that it was written by the people because think about a reality situation, someone hears about something ("a smell developed" (207) in Emily's house) then two days later they hear about more of the story (Emily wanting to buy Arsenic), and then in the end they put all the pieces together from what they heard and realized what happened (Homer dead in a bed of Emily's).
As I read the story I am not sure if the people are scared of Emily or if they feel sorry for her because they send her many tax papers but never kick her out, this makes me feel that they are sorry for her. Then, when she asks the druggist for Arsenic and she didn't give a reason what she was going to use it for, the druggist still gave it to her. Which makes me feel that he was scared of what she might have done if he didn't give her the drug.
Emily's father died and she did not want to give up his body. Once the people took the body she was alone until she met Homer. Homer and her were seen together but one day he left for a while. When he returned "A neighbor saw the Negro man admit him at the kitchen door at dusk one evening." (210) and that was the last time the people saw Homer. I think when Homer returned Emily killed him with the Arsenic because she didn't want him to leave again and then be alone once again. Emily kept his body and then distanced herself from the town so the people would not take Homer's body like they took her father's body. Emily didn't kill Homer because she didn't love him, she did it because she wanted to "have" Homer so she wouldn't be alone. To prove this the narrator says "we saw a long strand of iron-gray hair." (212) next to Homer.