A Rose for Emily

Foreshadowing

The finding of Homer Barron's body in the bed is the story's climax. Something this momentous
would be expected to be foreshadowed, and it is. The following are some of the "hints":
 the pungent odor emanating from the residence,
 Miss Emily's three-day storage of her father's body,
 her house's decrepit atmosphere,
 the manner in which the top level had been sealed off,
 her arsenic buy, and
 Miss Emily looks like a corpse, "bloated, like a body long submerged in motionless water,"
and her partner is a corpse as well.
It's also hinted at that Miss Emily's mental state would allow her to undertake something so bizarre.
One of them, as previously said, kept her dead father's body for three days. Lady Wyatt, her great-
aunt, "had gone utterly insane," according to another story.