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