Faulkner then introduces someone Miss Emily is interested in, a town laborer, Homer Barron. We have often seen them together. At first, everyone thought they were going to get married, but Homer wasn't the marrying type. Although Miss Emily loves Homer, he is not interested in "settling down." Miss Emily soon enters a depressed state and goes to buy arsenic, leading the townspeople to believe that she intended to commit suicide. Miss Emily found out that Homer wasn't going to marry her and she couldn't handle the fact that she would have to lose someone again, putting her in the mindset that she had to find a way to be able to keep it forever. . Homer Barron had been seen entering Miss Emily's house but never seen leaving. As the story goes, Miss Emily dies at age seventy-four. Faulkner ends his story with the way he opened it, with Miss Emily's funeral. The town came to her and broke down the door to a back room that hadn't been opened in forty years. When the townspeople approached the room, they found the corpse of a man lying in the bed, with a long lock of gray hair at the edge of the bed.