Arranging events in the text

1. Homer's arrival in town

2. The aldermen's visit

3. Emily's purchase of poison

4. Colonel Sartoris's decision to remit Emily's taxes

5. The development of the oder

6. Emily's father's death

7. The arrival of Emily's relatives

8. Homer's disappearance

Questions

1. Why weren't there suitable suitors for Emily?

2. Why does Emily take up with Homer Barron?

3. What happened when he left? Did he abandon her? Why did he come back?

4. Why did she kill him?

5. Why did the smell disappear after only one week?

6. How did the hair come to be on the pillow? 

7. Did she lie beside the corpse? How often, for what period of years?

8. Why did she not leave the house for the last decade of her life?

9. How crazy was she (unable to distinguish fantasy from reality)?

10. Why does she allow so much dust in her house?