A Rose For Emily (short story)

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Paragraph Analysis of “A Rose for Emily” by William Faulkner
In this essay, we shall analyze the significance of the following paragraph of “A Rose for Emily”

“Then we noticed that in the second pillow was the indentation of a head. One of us lifted something from it and leaning forward, that faint and invisible dust dry and acrid in the nostrils, we saw a long strand of iron-gray hair.” (Faulkner 5)
In my opinion, the story does not lead to the conclusion, which makes the final even more unexpected. This is by far the most interesting line in the whole story. The final punch the reader needs to be finally awestruck by the story. However, the story does show us that Mrs. Emily’s mind was long gone. In a way, the author constructs a whole atmosphere about Mrs. Emily, and the circumstances leading to her destiny. We can see the foreshadow of the story’s finale at the moment when a smell came out from the house, and men had to sprinkle lime on her lawn. Faulkner tries to conceal it by speaking almost immediately about Mrs. Emily’s father.

In a first fast reading, he does, but after a careful second reading, the ruse becomes more obvious, and the death of Homer Barron becomes a possibility. In the same way, the moment when she goes to the drugstore to buy arsenic, is another moment where the story shows us the idea of death.
Another idea that occurred to me is that she could have taken the arsenic she…