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 summary outlines the external plot of Emily refusing to pay taxes, and the internal plot of her isolation due to her father's overprotective parenting. It also describes key events like the town requesting to inspect Emily's house due to a bad smell, finding Homer Barron's rotting corpse after Emily's death, and realizing Emily had gone insane.