Story Of An Hour

4.) Miss Emily had important decisions to make throughout the story. For one, she

decided that she wasn't going to pay taxes because she didn't owe any. Second, she

decided to take Homer Barron's life. She couldn't handle the fact that the town saw his as

a "mans" man and she knew that he was never going to marry her. And to make sure that

he never left her, she poisoned him with arsenic and put his body in the room above the

stairs. Miss Emily's biggest consequence throughout the story was the fact that she was

never going to pay the back taxes that she did owe, and that in order for Homer to stay

with her, she had to kill him and hide the body.

11.) Miss Emily's relationship with Homer Barron was complicated. He was looking for

a friend and she was looking for a husband. She didn't like to be alone, and since the

death of her father, I think Homer filled his shoes for her, and that is why she wasn't

about to let him leave. She just wanted to be loved. She ended up taking Homer's life

because she knew that if he found the right companion, he was going to leave her and she

couldn't accept that. The question remains, did she keep him there to prove to him that

one way or the other, she was going to have him,