If you have finished writing your poem, you can start reading this short story by Faulkner:
http://www.teacherweb.com/NM/BosqueSchool/Cummings/ARoseForEmily.pdf
Please answer the following questions in complete sentences on a sheet of paper:
1. How does Miss Emily behave after her father dies?
2. Why does the minister's wife send for Miss Emily's relations?
3. Who is Homer Barron? When does he disappear?
4. How does Miss Emily spend the last decades of her life?
5. What do people discover when they force open the door to the room above the stairs?
6. What conflicts existed between Emily and her father?
7. Colonel Sartoris' white lie to Miss Emily about her taxes is an attempt to spare her pride. explain how Judge Sevens also takes steps to protect her. How does the townspeople's shift in attitude about the taxes reflect wider social and economic changes in the South?
8. Why do you think Faulkner emphasizes the way that Miss Emily's hair turns gray and the precise time that it begins to happen?
9. What significance do you see in the long strand of iron-gray hair on the pillow in the upstairs bedroom? What exactly do you think happened there, and why?
10. What hints or clues throughout the story foreshadow the gruesome ending? did these hints prepare you for the ending, or were you surprised by it?
11. What part do you think Tobe, the African American manservant, plays in Miss Emily's history?
12. What sort of person do you think the narrator of this story is? Is it a man or a woman? What feelings toward Miss Emily does the narrator show?
13. Consider what roses usually symbolize. Then, defend the title of the story, or propose a more appropriate title.
14. Historical details in this story reveal a great deal about its setting. What do you learn about the times from the white townspeople's attitudes toward the African Americans who live in Jefferson? Nowadays have such attitudes changed or stayed the same? Explain your response.
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