About the Author
Author of "Trifles"
Susan Glaspell
In what story do you find “She was rockin’ back and forth. She had her apron in her hand and was kind of — pleating it.”
Trifles
Reason Mrs. Wright killed Mr. Wright
Mr. Wright killed her bird
Mrs. wright was here at the beginning of the story
Jail
Did William Faulkner have any siblings, if so, how many
Yes, he was the oldest of 4 brothers
Who said "I want arsenic”
Emily
Why were Harry and Hale going to see Mr. Wright at the farmhouse?
Convince him to get on party telephone line with them
2 changes that happened to Mrs. Wright throughout her marriage?
She used to love to sing in the choir.
Not very social or friendly.
She became sad and lonely.
Her marriage was unwelcoming.
Where did William Faulkner graduate high school?
He did not finish high school.
“I remember the very day that I became colored.” Who says this quote? Full Name Required
Zora Neale Hurston
Why does Miss Emily buy arsenic?
To kill Homer Barron
Zora Hurston lived here until she was 13
Eatonville, Florida
Where did Zora Neale Hurston attend college?
Howard University
“Where the old man made his mistake was in sending the boy East to school . . ."
___ is talking about ___ in ___
Phelps is talking about Harvey in the Sculptor’s Funeral.
Why did the tourists give Zora money as they passed through Eatonville?
For her performances they watched as they passed through
How old does Zora say she was when she “became colored?”
13
William Cathers birth state
Virginia
"[His] head seemed even more noble in its rigid stillness than in life. The dark hair had crept down upon the wide forehead; the face seemed strangely long, but in it there was not that beautiful and chaste repose which we expect to find in the faces of the dead” Who is being described
Harvey Merrick
Why did the body of Harvey Merrick arrive in a train?
He died away from his hometown in Kansas, because he had a career in sculpting in the East Coast.
When was A Rose for Emily first published?
April 30, 1930