Questions

“A Rose for Emily”

1. The iron gray strand shows she was lying with him after his death for a long time. It shows how desperate she was for company.
2. The town is the narrator. He professes to be speaking for the people of the town.
3. The narrator’s point of view adds mystery to the story. If we had Emily’s point of view, we would know what’s going on.
4. The foreshadowing did add interest to the story. Emily buying the poison and saying craziness ran in the family foreshadowed Homer’s death. Killing him sounded so crazy it made it hard to believe the foreshadowing.
5. Emily is not capable of accepting change. She wouldn’t give up her dead father’s body and she killed a man to keep his company forever.
6. She was a southerner with money- Homer was a blue collar Yankee.
7. I find it shocking dark humor. The end of the story left me speechless.
8. The author is sympathetic toward Emily. He doesn’t place her in a bad light even though she does insane things. She is not murderous; she’s just suffered a lonely life that has in the end deranged her. The author calls the story “A Rose…” because her character blooms through the story. Her insanity slowly unfolds as the story progresses.

“Teenage Wasteland”

1. The story is told by an outside character. The narrator uses limited omniscience. The story seems to be through the mother’s eyes even though she isn’t the actually person telling the story.
2. The significance of the opening paragraph is to show Donny’s innocence. He had a bright future, and somewhere along the way he lost it.
3. Daisy wants her children to look good. She is always listening to what other people do instead of making up her own mind. She just listens to Donny’s teachers or to Cal.
4. She doesn’t blame him for messing Donny up even more, however, it may be because she knows it’s truly her fault.
5. Daisy puts off her daughter for Donny. She won’t even talk to her when her daughter reaches out to her.
6. His presentation of Daisy is Satirical. He shows her as a woman without a strong sense of self, and she pays for it by losing her son.

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