In The Rose for Emily, William Faulkner uses several types of foreshadowing to lead up to the finding of Homer Barron's decayed body. He foreshadows the many events with Homer being gay but yet pursuing a relationship with Emily, Emily's sheltered life, and her buying poison but not explaining why she needed it to lead up to the discovery of his body. All of these instances help lead the reader to believe that Emily indeed killed Homer and the following helps support my theories.
             In the beginning of the short story Homer Barron was only casually mentioned as Miss Emily's lover, and seemed to have little or no significance to the story's direct meaning. The towns people knew he was gay and even said he was seen drinking with younger men at the "Elk's Club". However, after looking back over the story, the reader can see that Homer did display an important role in the theme of the story. Emily loved him and throughout the story, even though he did like men and if he was not of any importance the town's people would not have cared as much about his and Emily's relationship.
             Further more, Miss Emily's unhappiness and basically leading a sheltered life foreshadows that Faulkner was bringing across that it was wrong for the townspeople to gossip and assume things about her. By using Homer as the antagonist, one can see that because he had disagreed with Emily and was going to quit her as her father did, the unhappiness drove her to committing murder. Her murder was an act of passion and she did not want him to leave her. I think she believed that every one in her life left and this time she just did not want to let go. For instance when her father died she pretended for three days that he was still alive and refused to let the towns people bury him for quite a while.
             Finally, when Emily went to the store and bought Arsenic, a poison, it foreshadowed that she has indeed killed something o...