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A Homicide for Emily A Rose for Emily is a short matter to story written by William Faulkner. This is beca routine the way Emilys character is portrayed, the mysterious death of Homer Barron, and the way Faulkner uses the narrator to tell the story.Emily is portrayed as a wo human race who kept to herself throughout her whole life. In her younger years her father had driven all her suitors away. No man was good enough for Emily. Emilys solitude was especially evident after her father died and when her boyfriend Homer disappeared. Her hair had turned an irony gray after her father died. She had a blackened manservant throughout her whole life that went to the market, cooked and gardened for her. During the end of her life the manservants visits were the only way that the townspeople knew that she was still alive. After her father died Emily kept his body in her house. A few days after Emilys fathers death a couple of ladies came to give their condolences. But Emily came to the door dressed in casual clothes and showed no signs of grief. The townspeople were about to resort to law enforce ment when she finally broke down and told them that her father was dead. The townspeople did not believe she was crazy, withal though they knew insanity ran in her family. They thought Emily did this because they remembered how the father drove all the young men away. Now she was a figure that could be pitied by the town, only when and penniless.Eventually Emily met Homer, a Yankee who came into town to pave sidewalks during the summer of Emilys fathers death. They started seeing each other but Homer would quite hang out with the guys than hang out with Emily. He was not the marrying type. When Emily figured this out she bought some arsenic from a druggist. The townspeople thought she was going to use the arsenic to kill herself. However the next week they were sure homer and Emily would get married because Emily had been seen at the jewelers ordering a mans toilet set in s ilver, with the letters H.B. on each piece. Two days later she was seen buying a complete outfit of mens clothing, including a nightshirt. Homer was not seen for a week or so but he eventually came back into town and a inhabit saw the manservant let him in at the kitchen door.