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* [[Important Haircut]]: Emily cuts her hair after her [[Overprotective Dad]] dies.
* {{spoiler|[[I Love the Dead]]: The title character murders the man she wishes to marry, then lies next to him (long ago enough in the past for dust to settle, but recent enough that the hair on the pillow is gray); the corpse is also said to have been in an embracing position.}}
* [[Jigsaw Puzzle Plot]]: The story is comprised of five parts which are mostly out of order. For those who don't pick apart and reassemble the events, {{spoiler|whether Emily killed her beau, and why,}} is an perplexing matter. The fact that the narrator (implied to be the townspeople) has a severely limited understanding of Emily's personal life and occasionally relies on conjecture to guess at her actions doesn't help much either.
* [[Love Will Lead You Back]]: Subverted. {{spoiler|It is strongly implied that Emily murdered her lover and spent her time in "mourning" ''sleeping next to his corpse''.}}
* {{spoiler|[[Mummies At the Dinner Table]]: Mummies in bed, even}}.
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