How does the story being told in a non-chronological order affect the reader's perception?

If the story were told
in chronological order, there is a good chance that we, the readers, would figure out what is
really happening in the text; we would be able to add up the clues and ascertain that
Misspurchases the arsenic in order to kill . Telling the story out of chronological order
prevents us from putting together the pieces of the puzzle and renders us as uncertain of events
as the other people in the town are. We hear the pieces of Miss Emily's story in much the same
way that they wouldsome new and some from years ago. For example, separating the story about the
horrible smell emanating from Miss Emily's house (a smell that was so bad that several people
complained and men had to sneak onto her property at night to sprinkle lime all over it) from
the fact that Homer Barron seems to disappear not only from Miss Emily's life but also from the
life of the town completely, Faulkner knows the reader will probably be unable to connect the
two right away. In the end, the townspeople who come to Miss Emily's wedding could not have
anticipated finding the decayed corpse of Homer Barron in her bed; Faulkner allows us to be
shocked as well by telling the story in this way.