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A Rose for Emily is the tragic tale of an old Southern spinster named Emily Grierson, commonly called Miss Emily, she grew up in the South just out of the civil war, and became very used to the previous dominance she held over the town as the daughter of a wealthy landowner. In the beginning, her home is described and she is compared to her home—she is seen as a monument to the way things used to be in the South, before reconstruction. The “action” begins with the story of Emily’s fathers death, which she was reluctant to accept—she even refused to let the coroner remove his body from their home, but when she did finally allow them to, she began a sad life of loneliness that people assumed would persist until her death, and then her resistance towards paying taxes towards the town due to her grandfather having fought in the Civil War, with frequent intervention from the town. This is also when the character of the Negro is introduced, a silent, mysterious servant to Miss Emily who seems almost slave-like in nature. The next time the town intervenes is when there is a odd, putrid smell emanating from her home that several ladies complain about, but the town refuses to directly comment towards her on the scent. Eventually, Miss Emily meets Homer Barron, a young Yankee man with whom she becomes intimately familiar. If you catch my drift, *nudge nudge*, but this unfortunately doesn’t seem to stick, as after she buys a toiletry set for Homer and arsenic, people never seem to see Homer after their wedding, and Miss Emily becomes even more reclusive. Eventually, Miss Emily passes away and the entire town gathers out her home for the funeral, not out of respect but out of curiosity for the openly hermitic life she led, where the make a gruesome discovery, hinting at a history of murder, necrophilia, and scandal in general.