A Rose for Emily

An alternate title for this story should be "Rat Poison." When Emily went to the store asking for poison, one could easily tell she was not going to kill rats. For some reason, she decided to kill a man who seemed to like her a lot. Her murder of Homer Barron was not really a surprise. The speaker hinted to the fact that the townspeople believed her "[to be] crazy" (285). Also, the speaker mentions Barron entering Emily's house but never leaving it. The only think that was surprising was that she kept the body still in the bed. One can safely assume that Emily was in fact crazy.