How does Faulkner describe Miss Emily in the sixth paragraph in 'A Rose for Emily'?

Answer 1

A Rose for Emily is about a woman who was going to be jilted by a suitor (who was a carpetbagger) and she kills him. She keeps the corpse in her bed and the secret is kept by her house servant until she dies. Somebody discovers her secret, and discovers what she has done. Critics of the literature and I assume that is that she is insane or mentally deranged (i.e. Norman Bates) for keeping a dead body in her bed all of these years (she sleeps with the body every night). It is not until the very end of the story until the reader actually understand what she has done.

Answer 2

In the sixth paragraph of "A Rose for Emily," Faulkner describes Miss Emily as a "fallen monument" and a "tradition, a duty, and a care." He emphasizes her prominent and respected position in the town, highlighting her mysterious and unapproachable nature.

Answer 3

"a small, fat woman in black, with a thin gold chain descending to her waist and vanishing into her belt, leaning on an ebony cane with a tarnished gold head. Her skeleton was small and spare; perhaps that was why what would have been merely plumpness in another was obesity in her. She looked bloated, like a body long submerged in motionless water, and of that http://wiki.answers.com/glossary_5.htm#pallidhue. Her eyes, lost in the fatty ridges of her face, looked like two small pieces of coal pressed into a lump of dough as they moved from one face to another while the visitors stated their errand."

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Answer 4

It is personified with Death and Miss Emily. Death is one of the recurring themes and symbols in A Rose for Emily. The decaying house is a symbol for Miss Emily's physical, and emotional decay, and her mental problems. In summary, the house and Miss Emily are one in the same; both become decaying symbols of their dying generation.