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Title: Who is the unnamed narrator? For whom does he profess to be speaking? What will be an ideal ...
Post by: justinmsk on Jul 20, 2018
Who is the unnamed narrator? For whom does he profess to be speaking?
 
  What will be an ideal response?

Question 2

What is meaningful in the final detail that the strand of hair on the secondpillow is iron-gray?
 
  What will be an ideal response?
Title: Who is the unnamed narrator? For whom does he profess to be speaking? What will be an ideal ...
Post by: tanna.moeller on Jul 20, 2018
Answer to Question 1



We must also note that while traditionally the narrator has been assumed to be a man (perhaps a stand-in for Faulkner?), the text never clarifies this. It is possible that the narrator is a fellow townswoman, or even a distant female relation. How might this change your students reading of the story?

Answer to Question 2



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up this detail early enough so the reader knows, and will not have forgotten, that this long vigorous iron-gray hair belongs to no one other than Emily Grierson. From the detail that the strand of hair is iron-gray, it appears that Emily lay beside Homers body recently, many years after it was already rotten. In fact, she had probably lain beside it many times, for the pillow next to the body is clearly indented with a head.