This document summarizes the plot of the short story "A Rose for Emily" by William Faulkner. It discusses the main characters Emily Grierson and Homer Barron, and the setting of Emily's creepy old house in Jefferson, Mississippi. The main events are Emily refusing to pay her taxes and isolating herself after her father's overprotective parenting, people discovering a foul smell coming from her house after her death, and finding Homer Barron's rotting corpse, realizing Emily was insane.