Questions for Tuesday

“A Rose for Emily”
1. The meaning of the hair being gray is that Miss Emily had to have had slept with the corpse recently.
2. The unnamed narrator is an unnamed townsman who is speaking for the entire town.
3. “A Rose for Emily” seems better told from the narrator’s point of view rather than the main character’s point of view because if it was told from Emily’s point of view, there would be no mystery.
4. When Emily bought the arsenic, it foreshadowed that she killed Homer because of his disappearance shortly after. It seemed a little obvious and therefore somewhat gave away the ending.
5. The narrator shows the contrast between a changing reality and Emily’s refusal to recognize change by sharing the time that she kept her father dead in the house for three days and her killing Homer so she wouldn’t leave her. She also refused to pay taxes.
6. The difference in the character and background of Emily and Homer is that Emily is from a high society background and Homer is a more laid back person.
7. I find the story to be grim and a little creepy since there was an old woman sleeping with a dead man.
8. I believe that Faulkner saw Emily as a sad old woman. He uses Homer as a symbol as Emily’s rose since she somewhat had him on display like a rose.