A Rose for Emily

The story “A Rose for Emily” was at first confusing to me because of the fact that the events don’t happen in chronological order. It also doesn’t tell the reader when things actually happen in an effective way. This story to me is a classic lover scorned story. Emily is in love with Homer Barron, but he does not love her. He enjoys her company and probably the appearance of being a straight man. I think Homer Barron was a homosexual because of the line “because Homer himself had remarked - he liked men,” this is why he doesn’t love her. She buys arsenic and people think she is going to kill herself, but they don’t try to stop her. Ultimately she did not use the arsenic to kill herself, but to kill Homer instead. Her murdering of Homer is her way of saying if I can’t have you nobody will. Although in the end she did have him, well at least his rotting corpse.