Hoarder Level: 9001

A Rose for Emily by William Faulkner is a rather creepy short story. Early on in the passage, we learn that she has nothing left. Her father died and her sweetheart had left her: "That was two years after her father's death and a short time after her sweetheart--the one we believed would marry her--had deserted her" (Faulkner, 283). With the disappearance of her loved ones, she decides to cling onto anything that will prevent her from becoming hurt again. She meets Homer Baron and turns him into a heterosexual male and marries him. She then murders him with arsenic and lays the body on the bed as if he had just came home from work. She even sets up the room to look like he just came home. There is a suit hungover a chair with the shoes underneath it. There are socks and a tie on the ground. There is also evidence that she sleeps in the same bed next to the decayed body. Furthermore, since the narrator is the town, there is a bit of uncertainty and there may be even more creepy things associated with Emily.