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"A Rose for Emily" timeline, 1891 - Coggle Diagram

- - - - 1893
        
        Homer dies
        
        "So we were not surprised when Homer Barron- the streets had been finished some time since- was gone." (1072)
        
        1893
        
        Bad smell at Emily's house
        
        "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. (1069)
        
        1894
        
        Taxes 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 woman should appear on the streets without an apron- remitted her taxes." (1068)
        
        1901-1907
        
        Emily gives China painting lessons
        
        "They called a special meeting of the Board of Aldermen. A deputation waited upon her, knocked at the door through which no visitor had passed since she ceased giving china- painting lessons eight or ten years earlier." (1068)
        
        1913
        
        Colonel Sartoris dies
        
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        1923
        
        2 more items...
      - Emily buys rat poison
        
        "Miss Emily just stared at him, her head tilted back in order to look him eye for eye until he looked away and went and got the arsenic and wrapped it up." (1072)
    - - "The construction company came with people and mules and machinery, and a foreman named Homer Barron, a Yankee- a big dar, ready man, with a big voice and eyes lighter than his face." (1070)