Homer Barron comes to town as the foreman of a construction company from the north which has been contracted to pave the town's sidewalks. Homer is charming and has a tendency to be in the spotlight, and the town quickly takes to him and regards him fondly. However, some of the more old-fashioned members of the community are quick to judge his supposed courting of Emily, considering her to be too high-class for a day laborer like Homer. Homer represents the often uncomfortable upheaval of the values of traditionalists in the south after the war. He comes to town representing modern change, with machinery and industry. This makes his eventual cruel fate of staying with Emily forever (through death) all the more ironic.
Following the death of Emily's father, the community mentions that she was sick for a long time and remained reclusive inside her home. In the third section of the short story, the town gives a contract to a construction company from the North to pave their sidewalks. The community mentions that Homer Barron is the foreman in charge of supervising and overseeing the construction job. Homer Barron is a Yankee who is well-liked throughout the community and begins courting Emily Grierson. Being that Homer Barron is a working-class man from the North, the community disapproves of his relationship with Emily Grierson, who hails from a prestigious Southern family and is considered socially superior. Unfortunately, Homer Barron mysteriously disappears after Emily poisons him with arsenic. Homer Barron also symbolically represents Northern business interests influencing the South following the Civil War.
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