... was the woman of the manor. She wasn't faring any better than her surroundings, as, "her skeleton was small and spare... She looked bloated, like a body long submerged in motionless water and of that pallid hue" (434-435). When Miss Emily died, at age 74, her motionless head rested on "a pillow yellow and moldy with age" (442). The narrator noticed, "a thin ... ). The remains of Emily's suitor, Homer Barron, were also found on the bed, upon which the body must have lain for quite sometime, for "what was left of him, rotted beneath what was left of the nightshirt" (Faulkner "A Rose for Em...

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... novel is told from the point of view of the three Compson brothers, shows the black servant Dilsey as a main character, has Mrs.! Compson! complain about how her family is beneath her husband's, portrays Mr. Compson as a alcoholic, and names the children's grandmother Damuddy who also dies while they are young. Perhaps the most important influence on the story is Faulkner ... warnings from Versh and Quentin, she does not care if her parents find out. Instead, she takes off her dress in front of the servants, and then plays in the water. Even when Jason threatens to tell on her, she tell...

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• Grade Level: High School