A rather dark and disturbing short story written in 1931 by William Falkner, "A Rose for Emily" tells the story of Emily Grierson, a tormented and mysterious woman who is always been an outsider in her city. The story begins with the funeral of Emily, who died at 74. No one except his servant Tobe had entered his house for ten years, and the story goes back to this last meeting. Emily had had a special relationship with the city that allowed her to forgo paying taxes because she couldn't pay, but the younger generation didn't like the idea. That's when the authorities came to her house to demand payment, but she flatly refused. The story goes back thirty years earlier, when a terrible stench came from his house. This was a couple of years after her father had died, leaving her only the house but no money, and soon after a man she had been seeing had disappeared from her life. The townspeople, not wanting to confront her about it, sprinkled lime around her house until the smell went away. The story goes back to when she starts dating the man named Homer Baron and the town goes to call her cousins ​​to try to break off the relationship. Emily is seen buying arsenic at the pharmacy and the townspeople think she plans to kill herself. Homer and the cousins ​​leave, Homer returns and after entering Emily's house he is never seen again. He rarely leaves the house. As she ages, her hair turns gray, she becomes overweight and unhealthy, she dies, and the reader is taken back to the funeral. When it's all over, the townspeople go upstairs to the house to raid a room that had been locked for forty years. They find Homer's body on a bed, the hollow of a head on the pillow next to it......the center of the card......en they teach: to fall in love, get married and have a family, but everything began to go wrong shattered when she realized Homer was leaving. It's just like when the authorities showed up at her house demanding her taxes and she refused to pay saying, “the authorities need to see Colonel Sartoris. I have no taxes in Jefferson” even though Colonel Sartoris was long dead. He is unable to deal with conflicts because he refuses to let go of the past. There are many different layers to Emily's disturbed mindset and behavior. His refusal to let go is only one part and merely scratches the surface of this intricately written story. Faulkner skillfully creates the disturbing, sad, and tragic nature of this tale. The non-chronological order helps maintain mystery and intrigue until the shocking conclusion of this expertly written story.