[Prof. Masiello]

<p style=”background: #F0F0F0; margin: 0in 0in 11.25pt 0in;”><span style=”font-size: 10.5pt; font-family: ‘Open Sans’, sans-serif;”>Questions for discussion: theme: Men and Women</span></p>
<p style=”background: #F0F0F0; margin: 0in 0in 11.25pt 0in;”><span style=”font-size: 10.5pt; font-family: ‘Open Sans’, sans-serif;”>Press Ctrl + click <b>or</b> cut and paste into your browser to open any hyperlinks for the stories.</span></p>
<p style=”background: #F0F0F0; margin: 0in 0in 11.25pt 0in;”><span style=”font-size: 10.5pt; font-family: ‘Open Sans’, sans-serif;”>4) A short story by William Faulkner called “A Rose for Emily”:</span></p>
<p style=”margin: 0in; background: #F0F0F0;”><span style=”font-size: 10.5pt; font-family: ‘Open Sans’, sans-serif;”>https://archive.org/details/ARoseForEmily1930/mode/2up</span></p>
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<p style=”background: #F0F0F0; margin: 0in 0in 11.25pt 0in;”><span style=”font-size: 10.5pt; font-family: ‘Open Sans’, sans-serif;”>Please answer my question (below), not the ones on the final two pages of the text above.</span></p>
<p style=”text-indent: -.25in; mso-list: l0 level1 lfo1; background: #F0F0F0; margin: 0in 0in 11.25pt .5in;”><!– [if !supportLists]–><span style=”font-size: 10.5pt; font-family: ‘Open Sans’, sans-serif;”>a)<span style=”font-variant-numeric: normal; font-variant-east-asian: normal; font-variant-alternates: normal; font-kerning: auto; font-optical-sizing: auto; font-feature-settings: normal; font-variation-settings: normal; font-variant-position: normal; font-stretch: normal; font-size: 7pt; line-height: normal; font-family: ‘Times New Roman’;”>      </span></span><!–[endif]–><span style=”font-size: 10.5pt; font-family: ‘Open Sans’, sans-serif;”>Notice the descriptions of Emily at the beginning, when she is elderly.
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<p style=”text-indent: -.25in; mso-list: l0 level1 lfo1; background: #F0F0F0; margin: 0in 0in 11.25pt .5in;”><!– [if !supportLists]–><span style=”font-size: 10.5pt; font-family: ‘Open Sans’, sans-serif;”>b)<span style=”font-variant-numeric: normal; font-variant-east-asian: normal; font-variant-alternates: normal; font-kerning: auto; font-optical-sizing: auto; font-feature-settings: normal; font-variation-settings: normal; font-variant-position: normal; font-stretch: normal; font-size: 7pt; line-height: normal; font-family: ‘Times New Roman’;”>      </span></span><!–[endif]–><span style=”font-size: 10.5pt; font-family: ‘Open Sans’, sans-serif;”>Can you find a metaphor or a simile there? (You need to know the difference between those two “figures of speech” meant to be taken figuratively, not literally.) When you say someone is a pig, you do not mean it literally. The same is when you say to someone you eat like a bird. It is not meant literally.</span></p>
<p style=”background: #F0F0F0; margin: 0in 0in 11.25pt 0in;”><span style=”font-size: 10.5pt; font-family: ‘Open Sans’, sans-serif;”>The description of her hair color is literal, real, and it
also becomes a significant detail at the very end.</span></p>
<p style=”text-indent: -.25in; mso-list: l0 level1 lfo1; background: #F0F0F0; margin: 0in 0in 11.25pt .5in;”><!– [if !supportLists]–><span style=”font-size: 10.5pt; font-family: ‘Open Sans’, sans-serif;”>c)<span style=”font-variant-numeric: normal; font-variant-east-asian: normal; font-variant-alternates: normal; font-kerning: auto; font-optical-sizing: auto; font-feature-settings: normal; font-variation-settings: normal; font-variant-position: normal; font-stretch: normal; font-size: 7pt; line-height: normal; font-family: ‘Times New Roman’;”>       </span></span><!–[endif]–><span style=”font-size: 10.5pt; font-family: ‘Open Sans’, sans-serif;”>Think of metaphors and similes you use in your own conversation. List a few.
It is a good thing for writers to use metaphors and similes!</span></p>
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<p style=”background: #F0F0F0; margin: 0in 0in 11.25pt 0in;”><span style=”font-size: 10.5pt; font-family: ‘Open Sans’, sans-serif;”>c) Who is narrating this story (that is not the same as saying who wrote it)?</span></p>
<p style=”background: #F0F0F0; margin: 0in 0in 11.25pt 0in;”><span style=”font-size: 10.5pt; font-family: ‘Open Sans’, sans-serif;”>d) Notice that the narrator says in the first sentence, “When Miss Emily Grierson died, our
whole town went to her funeral: the men through a sort of respectful affection for a fallen
monument, the women mostly out of curiosity to see the inside of her house […].</span></p>
<p style=”background: #F0F0F0; margin: 0in 0in 11.25pt 0in;”><span style=”font-size: 10.5pt; font-family: ‘Open Sans’, sans-serif;”>Is this a criticism of women’s values or priorities? Is the portrayal of Emily a criticism?</span></p>
<p style=”background: #F0F0F0; margin: 0in 0in 11.25pt 0in;”><span style=”font-size: 10.5pt; font-family: ‘Open Sans’, sans-serif;”>e) When she bought arsenic, what did the townspeople think?</span></p>
<p style=”background: #F0F0F0; margin: 0in 0in 11.25pt 0in;”><span style=”font-size: 10.5pt; font-family: ‘Open Sans’, sans-serif;”>f) Homer was the one man that Emily seemed to care about.</span></p>
<p style=”background: #F0F0F0; margin: 0in 0in 11.25pt 0in;”><span style=”font-size: 10.5pt; font-family: ‘Open Sans’, sans-serif;”>Why did people think poorly of him? (It may have to do with geography…)</span></p>
<p style=”background: #F0F0F0; margin: 0in 0in 11.25pt 0in;”><span style=”font-size: 10.5pt; font-family: ‘Open Sans’, sans-serif;”>g) At the end, what do people find in the locked room? What exactly happened?</span></p>
<p style=”background: #F0F0F0; margin: 0in 0in 11.25pt 0in;”><span style=”font-size: 10.5pt; font-family: ‘Open Sans’, sans-serif;”>h) Did you notice the line: “When she had first begun to be seen with Homer Barron, we
had said, ‘She will marry him.’ Then we said, “She will persuade him yet,’ because
Homer himself had remarked-–he liked men, and it was known that he drank with the
younger men in the Elks’ Club-–that he was not a marrying man”?</span></p>
<p style=”background: #F0F0F0; margin: 0in 0in 11.25pt 0in;”><span style=”font-size: 10.5pt; font-family: ‘Open Sans’, sans-serif;”>Did it mean anything to you at first?</span></p>
<p style=”background: #F0F0F0; margin: 0in 0in 11.25pt 0in;”><span style=”font-size: 10.5pt; font-family: ‘Open Sans’, sans-serif;”>Does it mean anything in retrospect?</span></p>
<p style=”background: #F0F0F0; margin: 0in 0in 11.25pt 0in;”><span style=”font-size: 10.5pt; font-family: ‘Open Sans’, sans-serif;”>i) Considering all that the author writes about Emily, do you think he, William Faulkner, is
showing bias against women?</span></p>
 
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