"A Rose for Emily", 125 (Event)

Page Number: 
125
Order within Page: 
3
First 8-10 words of event: 
Like when she bought the rat poison, the arsenic,
Page Event Ends: 
126
Era: 
Reconstruction (1866-1889)
Characters Mentioned: 
Narrative Status: 
Narrated
Date: 
Thursday, January 1, 1880 to Friday, December 31, 1880
Summary: 

About a year after she began seeing Homer, "while the two female cousins were visiting her" (125), Emily purchases arsenic at the Jefferson pharmacy, though the druggist is reluctant to sell it to her because she will not tell him how she intends to use it.

Chronological Order: 
17.00
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