Miss Emily Grierson died and the whole town went to her funeral, some with curiosity to see the inside of her house and others because of respect.
Rising action
Years before the people of the town started to complain with the mayor because there was a horrible smell coming from Emily's house. As a solution, the people sneak into the house and spread lime for the smell to go away.
Rising action
A year before the smell, Emily met a man called Homer Barron. She wanted to marry him but he insisted that he was not a marrying man. Therefore Emily went to buy arsenic, and the people of the town thought she was going to use it to kill herself because of Barron.
Climax
Back to present, the people of the town went up to the room who no one had seen in forty years, and broke down the door to enter.
Falling action
The room was decked and furnished as for a bridal and in the bed layed down a skeleton of a man.
Resolution
The people took a close look to the bed and found a gray hair of Emily in the pillow next to the skeleton.