When Miss Emily Grierson died, our whole town went to her funeral: the men through a sort of respectful affection for a fallen monument, the women mostly out of curiosity to see the inside of her house,which no one save an old man-servant—a combined gardener and cook—had seen in at least ten years.
Questions:
A.Which work is this passage taken from?
B.Why is Miss Emily Grierson's death regarded as a fallen monument?
C.Use one or two sentences to discuss Miss Emily Grierson.
A. A Rose for Emily by William Faulkner.
B.Emily is regarded as the symbol of tradition and the old way of life. Thus her death is like the falling of a monument.
C.Emily is typical of those who are the symbols of the Old South but the prisoners of the past, and she is an eccentric spinster who refuses to accept the passage of time, or the inevitable change and loss that accompanies it. (P617)