"We did not say she was crazy then. We believed she had to do that. We remembered all the young men her father had driven away, and we knew that with nothing left, she would have to cling to that which had robbed her, as people will" (page 285).
This story does not have a specific order. Everything is kind of jumbled into one. Also, the story is kind of centered around a big gossip wheel. For instance, the town assumes that Emily bought arsenic to kill her husband; however, the story does not explicitly say that she did such things. We never really get Emily's perspective. The story is told from a first person plural point of view, and Emily is already casted as a crazy, creepy person. The story does not allow room for sympathy towards Emily's character. Perhaps she just is emotionally unstable and has a problem with letting go of the men in her life. She needs serious help, but the people in the story just look down upon her because she's different. I'm still trying to figure out why she was so attached to her husband when he was "not the marrying type." Obviously, the two are not meant for each other, but the town seemed to know that the two would get married. However, I think that the structure of the story parallels with the fact of the gossip wheel. People are not really sure about what really happened to Emily and what went on in her life. Because of this, the story cannot be told in all factuality and order since her story is not even really known to the narrator(s).
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