In "A Rose for Emily," why does Emily kill Homer? In "A Rose for Emily," why does Emily kill Homer?

has a hard
time letting go of people she is close to. When her father died, she refused to admit he was
dead and kept people away from his body for three days. We're really can't say for certain that
she did kill . There's plenty of circumstantial evidence that would probably get her convicted
at trial. However, the narrator never comes right out and says that she poisoned him. The
narrator describes the body as having "once lain in the attitude of an embrace." Could
he have died of a heart attack? Regardless of how he died, by keeping the body, Emily can
continue to have a loved one close to her.