Emely's Funeral

the story is composed of five parts. The first part narrates the death and funeral of Emely Grierson. It states that the whole town wants to go to her funeral especially because they want to see the vestige of a monument that is falling. Women want to see the inside of the house while men are interested on the fallen monument. Emely does not pay taxes after her father’s death. Colonel Sartoris, the previous mayor, suspends Emely’s taxes. To justify this, he explains that her father once lent a considerable amount of money to the community. As the city has new leaders, they try to convince Emely to pay the taxes, but Emely refuses stating that she has no taxes in Jefferson. She asks them to speak with Colonel Sartoris to confirm it, but the

She is a slender young lady, beautiful and with a great future, however and according to her father, none of the suitors is good enough for her. So by her 30, Emely is still single and with no offer of marriage. The people complaints to the judge Stevens about the odor emanating from Emely’s house. The judge explains that it might be a rat or snake killed in her yard. So he decides to sprinkle lime along the house of Emely in the middle of the night. A day after the death of her father, a few women call to her door to offer her their condolences, but Emely replies her father is not dead. Emely feels abandoned by her father and the man whom the town folks believe Emely is to marry. After this incident, the people start to pity Emely and think that she has succumbed into insanity just as her ant previously

People still believe that she will force Homer to marry her because they know that Homer likes men and that he is not a man to marry. The ladies town asks the Episcopal minister to visit Emely, however once he talks to her he refuses to divulge what they convers. In desperation the ladies writes to her relatives in Alabama who come to stay with her for a few weeks. Homer is gone when the paving is done. Emily orders a silver toilet with Homer’s initials. Talks of the couple’s marriage resumes. Homer, absent from town, is believed to be preparing for Emily’s move to the North or avoiding Emily’s intrusive relatives. However a couple of days later, when Emely’s cousins are gone, Homer is seen entering to Emely’s house. It was the last time he was seen. Since then Emely does not go out of her house. The next time she is seen she has grown fat and her hair has grown gray. Her doors remains closed to everybody. The only figure that is seen going in and out of the house is a negro with a basket. Except for the occasional sight of her in the window, nothing is heard from her until her death at age