A Rose For Emily Timeline
1861
1891
1892
1893
1894
1912
1922
1935
emily is still single
emily meets homer
homer dies
"That was the last we saw of Homer Barron."
"When she got to be 30 and single, we weren't pleased exactly, but vindicated."
"Miss Emily would have an interest."
taxes are remitted
chinese paintings
"No visitor has passed since the Chinese Painting lessons."
try collecting taxes
emily dies
"Up to the day of her death at 74."
emily is born
emily buys poison
"I want some poison", she told the druggist.
emily's father dies
"Two years after her father's death."
"Alive, Miss Emily had been a traction."
bad smell
"Will you accuse a lady to her face of smelling bad?"
"Meanwhile her taxes are remitted."
colonial sartoris dies
"Colonial Sartoris had been dead 10 years."
find homers body
"On the first of the year, they mailed her a tax notice."
"The man himself lay in the bed"