A Rose for Emily

In the short story of A Rose for Emily by Faulkner, I believe it was very hard for Emily to live and survive in such a small town full of gossip and different opinions. She lost her father at a young age and had to make it on her own with noone to love until she met Homor who was a foreman working in the town. She had to deal with the sheriff knocking on her door so often for taxes which she claims she never has, "I have no taxes in Jefferson." (pg 207) It was really hard to believe that she'd killed Homor, regardless of her bitterness towards life and the town. She was affraid of loosing another loved one, which is why she figured she'd poison him and keep him until death. There were so many feelings about Emily from all of the town folk, "Poor Emily" but then people were also against her along with the sheriff and her neighbors. The narrator, I believe, was the whole town when it kept saying "we" instead of "I". People of the town thought she wanted to kill herself when she bought the arsenic, "She will kill herself." (pg 210) She obvioulsy wanted to die by Homor though when she would lay by him at times, with the pillow indented in the shape of her head and a long piece of hair on the pillow.