In the story A Rose for Emily by William Faulkner (published 1930) the character Emily Grierson had a lot of redemption in the story. One of them was Rose killing Homer to stay with him for eternity. Rose dreamed of getting married and being happy in that matter. Horner made her happy and he needed to stay with her so she prepared a wedding with him and poisoned him. Emily is seen as very high class and untouchable by anyone. A paradox in the story would be the town assuming Emily died thinking she was going to poison herself. They believe she was dead for a long time till they open the house doors and discover she didn’t die. Emily was there till old and died of a sickness while the town spoke all kinds of myths about her. They basically killed her by suspecting unreal things about her.