Submitted by cornellgoldw@fo... on Sat, 2012-06-30 11:26
The only appearance of Jefferson's jewelry store occurs in "A Rose for Emily," when Emily herself goes there to purchase a "man's toilet set in silver" (127).
Submitted by cornellgoldw@fo... on Sat, 2012-06-30 11:21
As part of the story of Yoknapatawpha's history that Faulkner tells in Requiem for a Nun, the narrator mentions that growth leads in time to the need for "the county offices . . . of sheriff and tax-collector and bailiff and turnkey and clerk" (179). Only one text locates events in the sheriff's office: Light in August, which locates the office on the Square (415).
Submitted by jburgers@gc.cuny.edu on Sun, 2012-06-24 14:53
When her husband fails to change Emily's behavior with Homer, his unnamed and undescribed wife takes it upon herself to write to summon Emily's Alabama kin.
Submitted by jburgers@gc.cuny.edu on Sun, 2012-06-24 14:51
Although Emily herself is an Episcopalian, this Baptist minister is "forced" by the "ladies" of Jefferson to pay her a pastoral visit rebuking her and Homer's public behavior; he "never divulges" what happened in when he confronted Emily, but he "refuses to go back" to her house again (126).
Submitted by jburgers@gc.cuny.edu on Sun, 2012-06-24 14:45
Homer Barron hangs out with these younger men of the local Elks' Club. (The Benevolent and Protective Order of Elks is a civic group that was originally founded in New York in 1868.)
Submitted by jburgers@gc.cuny.edu on Sun, 2012-06-24 14:12
"Miss Emily's relations in Alabama" (126) are "two female cousins" (127) who had fallen out with Emily's father in the past. During Emily and Homer's courtship the town sends for them, but soon discovers that they are "even more Grierson than Miss Emily had ever been" and is glad when they leave (127).
Submitted by jburgers@gc.cuny.edu on Sun, 2012-06-24 14:00
The phrases "the women" (119) and "the ladies" (124) are used on several occasions in "A Rose for Emily" to describe the general opinion of all the women in town. They function as a particularly Southern kind of narrative chorus. Presumably, these phrases do not literally refer to every woman, or even every white woman (though they certainly do not include women of color), but rather the genteel white women whose own reputations are impeccable, and who can function as the self-appointed guardians of the town's good name.
