"The man himself lay in the bed." (pg. 289)
Who is the man in her bed, and why is he there? Did she kill him? Did the hair on the pillow next to him represent that he cheated on her? The stench in the story obviously accounts for the dead body, so I'm assuming she killed him. She did not want anyone in her house and wanted people to stay away. Why did Emily buy the arsenic? Is that how she killed the man? Or is that how she killed herself? As you can see, I have many lingering questions about this short story, and I don't really understand the point of it.
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