The Chronological Happenings of Miss Emily

Miss Emily lived with her dad and her hired hand. She gave piano lessons and painted. Her dad had lent money to the city and because he did, they didn't make him or Miss Emily pay taxes. Her dad died and Miss Emily refused to believe he was dead. She let anyone touch his body until 3 days after he died. After she died, she stayed in her house with the hired hand. Next time she was seen, she had cut her hair and was with Homer Barron, a Yankee. Emily's cousins came to stay wth Miss Emily and Homer disappeared. She kicked them out and he returned Everyone thought they were married by how she started to act. She bought rat poison and then Homer disappeared again. She closed all of her windows and shut up the house upstairs. The house started to stink and so some locals put some lysol into a window. She wasn't seen much after that. When she died, the help let people in and they found her downstairs. They went upstairs and found the remains of Homer Barron on a bed with everything set out as if a wedding had just occured. On the pillow next to him was a grey hair and a pillow that was dented in as if a head had just been laying there.