A Synopsis for A Rose for Emily

Miss Emily Grierson is a traditional girl who sticks to aristocratic lifestyle. No matter young or old, her father is very strict with her marriage. However, out of respect and admiration, she can't accept her father's death and falls ill for a long time.

Later, she cuts her hair short and falls in love with Homer Barron, a foreman who doesn't match her class. The whole town doesn't agree with their love and blames her that she forgets her identity. In response, she carries her head high and purchases arsenic. All people think Homer would desert her but there is no evidence. Suddenly, Homer abandons her only two years after her father's death making her no longer like a girl. She grows fat and her hairs turn gray. From now on, she closes her house's front door and refuses to contact the outside. She insists not to pay for tax and refuses to clean her house. She just lives in her house and the only person they can see from her house is her servant, Negro.

Finally, Miss Emily falls ill and dies in her shabby house at 74 and the whole town goes to her funeral to see her house which doesn't open for forty years. Surprisingly, they find Homer Barron's corpse lying in bed and a long strand of iron-gray hair. It is obvious that Emily kills Homer with arsenic to prevent being deserted.