Submitted by jburgers@gc.cuny.edu on Sun, 2012-06-24 13:50
Along with the similarly vague group of "ministers" (123), this group of "the doctors" in town visit Emily Grierson's house to persuade her to relinquish her father's corpse (124).
Submitted by jburgers@gc.cuny.edu on Sun, 2012-06-24 13:47
Another one of the anonymous groups of townspeople in "A Rose for Emily," these "ministers" (123) show up at Emily's house with a group of doctors after her father's death to urge her to let go of her father's corpse.
Submitted by jburgers@gc.cuny.edu on Sun, 2012-06-24 13:10
Miss Wyatt is Emily Grierson's great-aunt, and reputed to have been insane: she went "completely crazy at last" (123), the narrator says, but provides no further details, about either her or her illness. Emily's father and her other "kin in Alabama" have a falling out "over the estate of old lady Wyatt" after she dies (125).
Submitted by jburgers@gc.cuny.edu on Sun, 2012-06-24 13:02
Two different groups of town leaders visit Emily's house in "A Rose for Emily." This is the group of aldermen who visit the house in the middle of the night around 1881, because the smell emanating from her house has become a public nuisance. Unwilling to accuse a "lady" of "smelling bad," the four men, "three graybeards and one younger man" (122), sneak onto her property in the darkness and sprinkle lime into the cellar and around all the outbuildings.
Submitted by jburgers@gc.cuny.edu on Sun, 2012-06-24 12:41
The Grierson house is "a big, squarish frame house that had once been white, decorated with cupolas and spires and scrolled balconies in the heavily lightsome style of the seventies [i.e. the 1870s], set on what had once been our most select street. But garages and cotton gins had encroached and obliterated even the august names of that neighborhood; only Miss Emily's house was left, lifting its stubborn and coquettish decay above the cotton wagons and gasoline pumps - an eyesore among eyesores" (119).
Submitted by sek4q@virginia.edu on Mon, 2012-06-18 21:13
Ab Snopes names his younger son after one of the patriarchs of Yoknapatawpha - Colonel John Sartoris - a man who left his mark on the county and its lore as a founding father, planter, Civil War hero, railroad tycoon, and politician. His story is chronicled or remembered in many of the other fictions.
