The One Without a Title... ( a.k.a foreshadowing)

In William Faulkner's A Rose For Emily, there are many events which lead up to the discovery of a dead man in the room. The discovery is foreshadowed greatly. The reader can anticipate that Emily murdered Homer Barron. In paragraph 27, the novel describes her brief period of insanity when her father dies. "She told them that her father was not dead." This serves as a foundation for the readers suspicions. Then the story talks about how she bought arsenic without saying why. Homer's homosexuality and disappearance into her house are also described. The strange smell from her house mentioned in paragraph 16 also alerts the reader that something strange happened in her house. Although the full extent of her obsession is not evident until the town people break into the room when her gifts for him and his body are discovered, her crime can be reasonably predicted.