Plot
Why do the townspeople assume Emily got married?
She purchased a men’s toilet set.
The simile “like two small pieces of coal pressed into a lump of dough” describes...
Miss Emily’s face
The title comes from:
A tribute from the narrator to Emily
Southern Gothicism is a sub-genre of...
Gothicism
Immediately after her father dies, Emily does what?
refuses to acknowledge his death
The mailboxes and house numbers represent:
Modernity and change
The narrator generalizes about people by saying that “we knew that with nothing left, she would have to cling to that which had robbed her, as people will.” Miss Emily’s behavior supports this generalization because she —
refuses to admit that her father is dead
What are the five key aspects of Southern Gothic literature?
freakishness, imprisonment, outsiders, violence, sense of place
Colonel Sartoris released Miss Emily from paying taxes because he...
did not want to see her humiliated
Mr. Grierson’s horsewhip symbolizes:
The male-dominated society
What is ‘circumlocution’?
Telling a story out of order
William Faulkner most notably won this award in his lifetime?
Nobel Prize
At the end, why do the townspeople infer that Emily slept in the secret room after she had shut off from the rest of the house?
There was an indentation of a head in the pillow and a strand of her hair
What is unique about the narrator in “A Rose for Emily”?
He is speaking on behalf of a whole town
What is noblesse oblige?
the duty of upper classes to set an example for lower classes
Where was Faulkner from?
Oxford, Mississippi