Emily purchases poison during the time her cousins from Alabama visit town. Homer returns to the Grierson house within three days of their departure and that is the last they see of Homer Barron. A short time after Homer disappears an unpleasant smell develops around the Grierson residence. About forty years later, Homer's remains are discovered in Emily's bed. Emily's father had prevented her from maturing sexually in the ordinary and natural way. (Scherting 400). Consequently restrained, her sexual drives transpired in a abnormal and unnatural behavior. Emily was never allowed to outgrow her incestuous connection to her father and that Homer was sexual desire, a replacement for her father, then the affair becomes abnormal and tragic.(400).