A Rose for Emily

The story "A Rose for Emily" is not told in chronological order. I believe that this story is told by another person who lives in Emily's town. This person did not know Emily personally but seemed to know a lot about her family and their history. Because this person did not know her, I think that the story seemed to go out of order. It was like this person kept going back to details that they forgot to mention. They had to go back in time to add the things that would make the story make sense. If the person telling the story had a better understanding of the facts, the story may have went in a better order. They would have been able to tell it from start to finish without leaving things out.
I believe that Emily killed Homer. I think she did this because she loved him so much and did not want to lose him like every other man. She was so used to having her father driving all the men in her life away that she did not want it to happen again. The passage on page 208 of the Literature book says, " We remembered all the young men her father had driven away. . ." This tells us that the people in the town were very aware of why Emily never had a husband before her father's death. Killing Homer was her way of keeping him with her forever.