A Rose For Emily

I believe the narrator of the story is someone from the town and has known Miss Emily for many years. The narrator only focuses on events where Miss Emily did something that was out of the ordinary. He or she talks about how Miss Emily wouldn't pay taxes on her house and how she kicked the men out of her for asking her to pay them. It's as if the narrator is standing next to you outside of Miss Emily's house and you are gossiping about the old woman who never left her home. In the end of the story you find out Miss Emily poisoned Homer with the arsenic that she bought. They found his body in the upstairs bedroom after Miss Emily died and found he had been dead for many years. I believe Miss Emily killed him because she was afraid he was going to leave her like all the men her father had scared away. The story also tells you that Homer liked men and that he wasn't the marrying type so she knew eventually he would leave. In a sense yes she was crazy but I think she was more afraid of being alone then anything and she wanted to prevent it from happening and that's why she killed Homer.