Cuckolded- When an individual has cheated or been unfaithful to one's partner in a marriage. (pg.94)
"The body had apparently once lain in the attitude of an embrace, but how the long sleep that outlasts love, that conquers even the grimace of love, had cuckolded him."
Miss Emily was having an affair with a man named Homer Baron who she killed with arsenic. She would lay in bed with the body. The two cousins found the pillow indented with a strand of her hair and a rotting body.
Knowing the definition of the word helped me to understand the reason she might have killed him.
*Maybe he was having an affair and she found out and decided she would rather kill him as to lose him through his affair. So in a sick way she killed him and kept his body with her.
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