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A Rose for Emily Timeline - Coggle Diagram
A Rose for Emily Timeline
1861: Emily was born
"Up to the day of her death at seventy-four"
1891: Emily is still single at 30
"So when she got to be 30 and was still single..."
1891: Emily's Father dies
"That was 2 years after her father's death."
1892: Emily meets Homer
"... a short time after her sweetheart had deserted her..."
1893: Emily's buys Rat Poison
"'I want some poison.' she said to the the druggist. She was over 30 then..."
1893: Homer Dies
"at the kitchen door at dusk one evening. And that was the last we saw of Homer Barron."
1893: There's a bad smell around the house
"She had vanquished their fathers 30 years before..."
1894: Emily's taxes were remitted
" ...a sort of hereditary obligation upon the town, dating from that day in 1894..."
1907-1913: Emily gives china-painting lessons
"...save for a period of six or seven years, when she was about 40, during which she gave china-painting lessons."
1913: Colonel Sartoris dies
"(Colonel Sartoris had been dead almost ten years.)"
1923: The Townspeople try to collect taxes
"She had vanquished their fathers 30 years before about the smell."
1935: Emily dies
"Up to her the day of death at seventy-four..."
1935: The Townspeople find Homer's body
"The man himself lay in the bed."