The story is talking about Emily, a young woman of the south. His father did not allow her to have a boyfriend. When he dies, it affects her a lot, and I think that leads her to the edge of madness. Few years later she knows a guy from the north and begins to have a relationship with him. When Emily suspects that he was not going to marry her, probably because she suspected that him prefers to stay in company of other men, she buys poison and kills him. Then she lives for 40 years with the corpse lying in bed and sleeping beside him every night till her decease. I think she was totally insane at this point. This is a creepy story, and never I read something like that. It looks like a horror movie.
On the other hand, and besides of the story itself, it was narrated in an age when the differences between black and white people was very strong, maybe for that reason we see several times the word Negro and not black, when the narrator is talking about Afro-Americans. It is a good story and it has many details and more than one meaning. Definitively recommended.
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