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A Rose For Emily Timeline, Emily is born, 1861 - Coggle Diagram
A Rose For Emily Timeline
Emily meets Homer, 1892
"Presently we began to see him and Miss Emily on Sunday afternoons" pg. 1070
"Alive, Miss Emily had been a tradition, a duty, and a care; a sort of hereditary obligation upon the town," pg. 1068
"she had vanquished their fathers thirty years before about the smell." pg. 1069
Emily's father dies, 1891
"That was two years after her father's death" pg. 1069
Emily buys rat poison, 1893
"Like when she bought the rat poison, the arsenic. That was over a year after they begun to say "Poor Emily," pg. 1071
Homer dies, 1893
"And that was the last we saw of Homer Baron." pg. 1073
Emily gives china painting lessons, 1906-1913
"for a period of six or seven years, when she was about forty, during which she gave lessons in china-painting." pg. 1073
Emily is still single at age 30, 1891
"So when she got to be 30 and was still single." pg. 1070
There is a bad smell around the house, 1893
Emily dies, 1935
"Up to the day of her death at seventy-four it was still vigorous iron-gray," pg. 1073
The Townspeople find Homer's body, 1935
"The man himself lay in the bed." pg. 1074
Emily's taxes are remitted, 1894
"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" pg. 1068
Colonel Sartoris dies, 1913
"(Colonel Sartoris had been dead almost ten years.)" pg. 1069
The Townspeople try to collect taxes from Emily, 1923
"When the nest generation, with it's more modern ideas, became mayors and aldermen, this arrangement created some little dissatisfaction. On the first of the year they mailed her a tax notice." pg. 1068
Emily is born, 1861