Daily puzzle

Put A Rose for Emily back in order

Seven beats from our edition of A Rose for Emily by William Faulkner, shuffled. Drag them, or use the arrows, until the story runs straight. No account, no streak to lose.

  1. The father’s grip Mr. Grierson turns away Emily’s suitors and keeps her to himself; the town pictures her small behind his looming silhouette.
  2. A death denied When her father dies, Emily insists for three days that he is alive, clinging to the only person who ever defined her.
  3. Homer Barron Emily is seen riding out with Homer, a Northern foreman. The town gossips; her cousins are summoned; pressure mounts to either marry or stop.
  4. "I want some poison" Emily buys arsenic and will not say why. The druggist writes "for rats" on the box; she stares him down.
  5. Homer disappears Homer enters the house one night and is never seen again. Soon a powerful stench spreads, and the town quietly limes the grounds at midnight.
  6. The long seclusion Emily shuts herself away for decades, emerging rarely; her hair turns the iron-gray of an active, vigorous woman gone still.
  7. The sealed room After her funeral the town forces the upstairs room and finds Homer’s corpse, and beside it a pillow dented by a head and one long iron-gray hair.