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"A Rose for Emily"- Timeline, Emily buys rat poison. - Coggle…

- - - - 1894
      - So she vanquished them, horse and foot, just as she had vanquished their fathers thirty years before about the smell. That was two years after her father’s death and a short time after her sweetheart — the one we believed would marry her — had deserted her. After her father’s death she went out very little; after her sweetheart went away, people hardly saw her at all.
      - Emily meets homer
        
        1895
        
        "A few of the ladies had the temerity to call, but were not received, and the only sign of life about the place was the Negro man — a young man then — going in and out with a market basket."
        
        Homer's death
        
        1895
        
        I’m sure that won’t be necessary,” Judge Stevens said. “It’s probably just a snake or a rat that man of hers killed in the yard. I’ll speak to him about it.”
        
        Smell
        
        1895
        
        So the next night, after midnight, four men crossed Miss Emily’s lawn and slunk about the house like burglars, sniffing along the base of the brickwork and at the cellar openings while one of them performed a regular sowing motion with his hand out of a sack slung from his shoulder. They broke open the cellar door and sprinkled lime there, and in all the outbuildings.
        
        Emily gives China painting lessons.
        
        From that time on her front door remained closed, save for a period of six or seven years, when she was about forty, during which she gave lessons in china-painting.
        
        1901
        
        Emily's death
        
        1935
        
        And so she died. Fell ill in the house filled with dust and shadows, with only a doddering Negro man to wait on her.