A Rose For Emily

After reading the last paragraph in the story, A Rose For Emily, by William Faulkner, I found that my jaw had dropped in shock. The paragraph reads, "Then we noticed that in the second pillow was the indentation of a head. One of us lifted something from it, and leaning forward, that faint and invisible dust dry and acrid in the nostrils, we saw a long strand of iron - gray hair." This paragraph explains to the reader that Emily was sleeping next to the skeleton/dead body. This reminded me of an episode of Desperate Housewives. One of the characters, an elderly female, had kept the remains of her dead husband in a freezer in her basement. She kept him preserved on ice and talked to him daily. However, the difference is that she didn't kill her husband, while Emily killed Homer.