A Rose for Emily tells the story of a lonely woman named Emily Grierson and the events that occur from her father's death until her death. The peculiarity of this story is that it is not told in chronological order. Faulkner moves from the past to the present throughout the story. The fact that the events are out of order makes the story more interesting and also creates suspense. At times the audience might be confused, but at the end of the story everything comes back and makes sense. I think if Faulkner had told it chronologically it would have been boring and predictable. The story is divided into five sections. The first section says that Miss Emily has died and the whole town goes to her funeral. The men come to pay her their respect and condolences, but the women are more worried about what is happening in her home. They are curious because no one has entered that house for many years. The unknown narrator describes the house as large and "situated on what had once been our choicest street." (Faulkner 209) In the next section, Faulkner returns to the past to tell us more about Emily's life while she was alive. His neighbor smells a horrible smell coming from his house and they complain to Judge Stevens. Subsequently four men are sent at night to clean. They arrived at his house, opened the cellar door and applied lime everywhere. Since the story is out of place, we don't know that Miss Emily killed Homer, which is where the horrible order came from. If the story were in chronological order there would be no suspense or curiosity about what causes the smell. In the third section, the narrator introduces the relationship that develops between Homer and Emily Grierson. Emily mee...... in the center of the card ......the dry, acrid dust in her nostrils, we saw a long lock of iron-gray hair.", indicates that she slept next to a dead corpse. (Faulkner 215) This story was very unique and unlike anything I had ever read before. William Faulkner's way of telling the story was both interesting and suspenseful. Throughout the story, I had mixed emotions because at first I I felt sympathy for her because she was so alone and unfairly scrutinized by the townspeople, but then I found out that she killed Homer and I wasn't sure whether to feel sorry for her anymore. It was very clear in the story that Emily was a little crazy. I enjoyed reading this story; the out-of-control events gave this story a unique twist. Works Cited Faulkner, William. "A Rose for Emily." Compact Reading, Reacting, and Writing 7th Edition Boston: Waldsmorth, 2010. 209-215