A Rose for Miss Emily

Miss Emily's sweetheart in "A Rose for Emily," whom she seems to have murdered with arsenic before their wedding, and whose body she let rot upstairs in her house until her own death.

Alive, he was "a Yankee - a big, dark, ready man, with a big voice and eyes lighter than his face." The narrator notes that "whenever you heard a lot of laughing anywhere about the square, Homer Barron would be in the center of the group." He was the foreman of the construction company that was paving the sidewalks of Jefferson.