Faulkner beautifully accomplishes this sudden drop in the readers" opinion of Emily in the closing line of the story. Within this line he reveals a whole new Emily and the reader is left to ponder her in a completely new light. ... The narrator then indicates the reasoning behind all the pity Emily received as an insane aunt, the death of her father, her wasted beauty, and her lonely existence. ...

• Word Count: 1870
• Approx Pages: 7
• Grade Level: High School

While she is able to say that she is forgotten like Regina, she never makes that comparison that she only has herself to blame, and the reasoning for this. ... The last line of this part speaks of ". . . faint, musky, dust-tinged smell of things that grew untended and had grown always, before the portly peonies and the angels with rigid wings, when the prairie bluffs were walked through only by Cree with enigmatic faces and greasy hair." ...

• Word Count: 1523
• Approx Pages: 6
• Grade Level: High School