"For a long while, we just stood there, looking down at the profound and fleshless grin. the body had apparently once lain in the attitude of an embrace, but now the long sleep that outlasts love that conquers even the grimace of love, had cuckolded him." (pg. 289)
This story is full of suspense. The narrator tells the story out of chronological order, but in the order that creates the most suspense, culminating in the discovery of Homer Barron's body. At first, Emily just seems strange, but things get creepier and creepier. Emily killed Homer because she was afraid of him leaving her, like her father had left her, so she decides that having his body forever is better that having him for a little while. The thing I'm curious about is why the Negro stayed with her all those years. What could she have done to force him? He would have been able to easily overpower her. He could have turned her in. He obviously knew what she did and that she was crazy.
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