In "A Rose for Emily," why did Emily kill Homer Barron?

We must look at
the events throughout the story
that fore-shadow Homer's death and the possiblity thatmurdered
him. She was
raised by her doting father who felt no man was good enough for her, already

setting Emily apart from the town. Her father idolized her, and the town begins to
also. When
her father dies, Emily loses the only person she had in the world,
and she refuses to allow his
body to be taken away for three days. Emily
isolates herself from the town after her father's
death, and this makes the
town of Jefferson even more interested in her life. Emily represents
the "old
South", and as the culture and values of the "old South" declined,
so did
Emily. She replaced reality with her own memories, living in her own world. This is
why
she tells the aldermen to talk to Col.about her taxes, even though he's
been dead for ten years.
Whenshows interest in Emily, she sees him as a
suitor who has finally come to court her. Perhaps
she's rebelling against her
father's beliefs that no one is good enough for her, or perhaps
she's
desperate to have someone in her life. At that point, Emily is trapped as the
spinster
"idol" of society, and she needs a husband to give her life meaning.
Perhaps her fears
become overwhelming when Homer leaves for a short time, and
she decides she would rather have a
marriage in death than no marriage at
all. She sleeps beside Homer's corpse for forty

years.