Miss Emily goes to the pharmacist and asks him to give her a bottle of arsenic, or a very strong poison. He is required by law to know what the poison is for, but instead of telling him, Miss Emily stares coldly into his eyes until he complies. Her position in the community allowed her to manipulate the pharmacist to get what she wanted, even though the ordinary citizen would not have gotten off so easily. As the story develops, we read that a body is found in the old house after Miss Emily's death. As I said before, the townspeople notice a strange smell coming from Miss Emily's house, but during that time you didn't tell any lady that it smelled. Because of the terrible stench, citizens entered his house late at night and filled the basement with lime to mask the aroma. They didn't know they were hiding the smell of a dead body. This once again goes back to the fact that Miss Emily cannot accept change. Her father died and she couldn't let him go, so she uses arsenic to kill Hector because, most likely, he wanted to leave her. She wanted to be with Hector so badly that her only option was to kill him. To make matters worse, the residents find long gray hairs and an indentation of a human body next to the pillow near the corpse. Miss Emily absolutely could not give up her love, so much so that in the end she slept next to the corpse of the man she had poisoned. The fear of letting go makes Miss Emily do so