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A Rose For Emily Grierson

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"A Rose for Emily" is very interesting story. The woman's name is Emily Grierson. In the story her father died and she meets a man. But it didn't all turn out good. Her dad was the only one. When she was younger her dad would chase her boyfriends away with a whip. But when her dad died she didn't tell no one and held his body for three days. Therefore finally she had a man but he didn't want to date. As they were together she went to the store and bought rat poison without him knowing. Then her house started smelling nasty. Then when miss Emily Grierson died in 1948. They went in her house and found this door locked. The men started breaking it down finally it opened. There laid homer on the bed. And on the pillow beside him was a

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