To answer your question about the deleted chapter: According to Volpe's "A Reader's Guide to William Faulkner" (p. 104). Faulkner had an original manuscript on Section 4, towards the end, in which this is what happened:
Emily was sick, Tobe standing by her. She tells him to have every visitor leave the house, and once their are by themselves, she decides to confess to him what was lying on the bed in the other room, which was Homer's carcass.
Tobe tells her he won't do so, apparently because he already knew. This is when she then tells him that she will give him her house, which was a promise she had made him 35 years prior. He refused the house, and instead would go live in the poorhouse, which is like an aging home.
Faulkner apparently may have deleted this part because of the aesthetic rythm it took away from the original manuscript.
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