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"