In “A Rose for Emily,” Emily is perceived as aristocratic and is assumed to be high on the social ladder, so she would never marry outside of her own social class. However, in reality after reading the story and finding out that she killed Homer, Emily could actually be portrayed as having actually been placed in the lower class because she killed Homer. Everyone she knew had left her, the men who wanted to court her, her mother, her father, Colonel Sartoris, and almost Homer. She killed Homer so she could be with him until he dies. Faulkner writes in “A Rose for Emily,” “The body apparently once lay in the attitude of an embrace, but now the long sleep that lasts longer than love, that conquers even the grimace of love, had betrayed it” ( 550). This indicates that even though Emily never married Homer, it could be said that Emily's marriage was initiated by Homer's death rather than the binding words "Till death do us part." To compare with Faulkner's life, Faulkner also had irony throughout his life by wanting to marry Estelle, who was born into the upper class of society. The ironic part of her life was that if Estelle's family had known that Faulkner would become an accomplished writer and not judged him for his place in society at the time, she would never have had to divorce her first husband who they chose for her and deemed suitable. for her. Furthermore, throughout the story Emily is always pitied by the townspeople. Faulkner writes “…The old men said, poor Emily” (546). When in reality, Emily secretly managed to muddle through. He stopped his housekeeper from peeking into the room where he kept Homer and he stopped his housekeeper from telling anyone that he had killed Homer. From this we deduce that ironically the famous phrase “she could get away with murder” is true for Emily because she had fooled everyone. She was also never arrested