A Rose For Emily In the story A Rose for Emily, Homer Barron was the foreman of a construction company. He was also the first real change Emily ever experienced. The town around her was advancing with the times, illustrated by the “garages and cotton gins” that had “encroached and obliterated even the august names of that neighborhood”, yet Emily’s weathered house stood there unchanged. “The new generation became the backbone and the spirit …showed first 75 words of 375 total…

…showed last 75 words of 375 total…her house into a tomb, “she had evidently shut up the top floor of the house” to further prevent the present and the future from interfering with her life. “Then we noticed that in the second pillow was the indentation of a head …” By sleeping with the decayed corpse of Homer Barron we find that she is so caught up in the past that she could not even allow the people she loved to progress.