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- Miss Emily will not pay her taxes
- Hmm?
- How we will make her pay taxes?
- “A Rose for Emily” opens in the twentieth century on the day Miss Emily Grierson’s funeral, held in the once grand, now decaying Grierson family house. Many townspeople were in attendance, not only to pay their respects but also out of curiosity, for no one had seen the interior of the house.
- It stinks here.
- Yeah.
- The narrative shifts back in time and describes an episode which Colonel Sartoris. the former mayor of Jefferson, Mississippi, suspended Miss Emily to pay taxes and justified the fact that Miss Emily's father had once lent a huge amount of money in the town.
- Almost twenty years, new town leaders were appointed they discovered the arrangement Sartoris made with Miss Emily and found it inadequate and despite their their persistence, they failed several times to exact taxes from that reclusive woman.
- What do you want to eat?
- Neighbors complained about the bad odor coming from Miss Emily's house. The new mayor refused to inform Miss Emily of this for fear of humiliating her. Instead, four men were dispatched to investigate the smell in secret and to spread an odor-neutralizing agent, lime, on Miss Emily's property. The smell went away thereafter.
- The narrative takes a leap back again in time, to two years before the bad smell was detected. Miss Emily’s father died, leaving her a pauper. Miss Emily denied that he was dead. In the same year as her father’s death, a construction company headed by a Northerner named Homer Barron arrived in town to pave the sidewalks.
- He and Miss Emily came to be sweethearts. The townspeople were only further scandalized, however, when they learned that Homer was by his own account “not a marrying man.”
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