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"A Rose for Emily" Timeline - Coggle Diagram

- - - - 1894
      - "...dating from that day in 1894 when Colonel Sartoris, the mayor... remitted her taxes" ( Paragraph 3)
      - The Smell
        
        1896
        
        "...thirty years before about the smell. That was two years after her father’s death and a short time after her sweetheart" (Paragraph 15)
        
        It was another link between the gross, teeming world and the high and mighty Griersons.
        
        Emily Was Sick
        
        Emily was sick for a long time as the townspeople had said and that when they saw her again she had cut her hair short.
        
        In 1901 right before Homer came to town
        
        Emily Buys Poison
        
        1902
        
        "Like when she bought the rat poison, the arsenic. That was over a year after they had begun to say “Poor Emily,” and while the two female cousins were visiting her." ( Paragraph 33)
        
        Homer Dies
        
        We can assume Homer died after she bought the rat poison and when the townspeople only saw him one time when he came back and never again. We can just assume this is the year he dies.
        
        "And that was the last we saw of Homer Barron." (Paragraph 47)
        
        1902
        
        Isolation
        
        6 Months Later
        
        "And of Miss Emily for some time...but for almost six months she did not appear on the streets." (Paragraph 47)
        
        Collecting Taxes
        
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