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"A Rose for Emily" Timeline, 1861 - Coggle Diagram

- - - - 1893
        
        1893
        
        1893
        
        1894
        
        1906-1913
        
        1913
        
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        Emily gives china painting lessons
        
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        Emily's taxes are remitted
        
        "Alive, Miss Emily had been a tradition, a duty, and a care; a sort of hereditary obligation upon the town, dating from that day in 1894 when Colonel Sartoris, the mayor -- he who fathered the edict that no Negro woman should appear on the streets without an apron -- remitted her taxes, the dispensation dating from the death of her father on into perpetuity" (3)
        
        There is a bad smell around her house
        
        "So she vanquished [the men who came to collect her taxes], horse and foot, just as she had vanquished their father's thirty years before about the smell" (15)
        
        Homer dies
        
        "So we were not surprised when Homer Barron-- the streets had been finished some time since -- was gone" (46)
        
        Emily buys rat poison
        
        "Like when she bought the rat poison, the arsenic. That was over a year after they had begun to say 'Poor Emily'....she was over thirty then" (33-34)
      - Emily meets Homer
        
        "presently we began to see him and Miss Emily on Sunday afternoons driving in the yellow-wheeled buggy and the matched team of bays from the livery stable" (30)
    - - "[the smell] was two years after her father's death" (15)