Sunday, February 8, 2009

A Rose for Emily Questions

1. What metaphor is used to describe Miss Emily in the first paragraph?
She is a fallen monument.
2. How is the house personified in the second paragraph?
It is described like a stubborn and flirty but an old falling apart house.
3. What had Colonel Sartoris done for Miss Emily in 1894?
He pardoned Miss Emily's taxes.
4. What did the next generation of town leaders do on the first of the year?
They mailed her a tax notice, but she didn't reply.
5. How does Faulkner describe Miss Emily in the sixth paragraph?
She is a small, fat woman in black clothes with a thin chain descending to her waist and vanishing in her belt. Her sleleton is small and spare. She looked bloated with pale skin.
6. At the beginning of Part 2, how long had Miss Emily's father been dead?
Two years
7. What are the neighbors complaining about? What does Judge Stevens say probably has caused it? There was an awful smell at Miss Emily's house. Judge Stevens thinks that the black man must have killed a rat or a snake.
8. What did Miss Emily tell visitors the day after her father's death?
Miss Emily told the ladies that her father is not dead.
9. Why did the townspeople not think she was crazy for this?
They thought she had to do that because she couldn't accept that her father is dead.
10. Who began to date Miss Emily in Part 3? Why was he in town?
She began to date Homer Barron. He was a foreman overseeing the construction of sidewalks in the town.
11. What did the townspeople think of Miss Emily and her new boyfriend?
At first, they were happy for her. Then they thought she must have forgotten her social status as a rich woman.
12. Miss Emily is 30 at the time and holds her head up in spite of the rumors she must be aware of. How does she show she has kept her dignity (thinking she is better than the other townspeople) when she visits the druggist?
She doesn't tell the druggist the reason why she wants the rat poison.
13. In Part 4 who does some of the ladies go to see about Miss Emily's situation? Why?
They forced the Baptist preacher to talk to her because she was setting a bad example for the young people and a disgrace to the town.
14. What does Miss Emily do that makes the townspeople think she and her boyfriend have gotten married?
She had bought him a toilet set with his initials and some clothes.
15. Why does the townspeople believe her boyfriend/husband has left?
Because the cousins have left the house.
16. When was the last time the townspeople saw the boyfriend/husband? When the black man let him in at Miss Emily's house.
17. Why had the men sprinkled the lime around her house in Part 2?
To help get rid of the awful smell coming from Miss Emily's house?
18. When Miss Emily was about forty, what had she done to earn money?
She taught china painting lessons.
19. In Part 5, who returns to hold Miss Emily's funeral?
The two female cousins held the funeral for Miss Emily.
20. There was a room upstairs that no one has seen for forty years. After Miss Emily's funeral, the door to it is broken down. What does the townspeople find there?
A man's body.
21. What is noticed about the second pillow on the bed in the last paragraph?
There was a strand of gray hair.
22. What had happened to Homer Barron?
Miss Emily killed Homer Barron with the rat poison.

3 comments:

  1. Thanks for posting these. I'm not one of the kids who find all my answers online, but I was stuck a few and couldn't find help anywhere! I enjoy your blog, it's very useful and interesting. Thanks! :)

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  2. Thanks for comin in clutch

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