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A Picture of Yoknapatawpha County
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1. Ca circa .1855: Miss Emily is born to the richest family of slave-owners in town.
2. 1861-1865: the American Civil War, Confederate troops from here commanded by Col. Sartoris.
• What do you think her image indicates when she bought arsenic?
• Haughty black eyes (Para.34) • She was compared to a lonely lighthouse
keeper • extreme loneliness and solitude. • A strained flag (Para.41)
• A rose symbolizing love and a pledge of faithfulness.
• A rose for somebody can also mean a kind of memorial, an offering, in memory of somebody.
• A bizarre story of love, death, honor, pride, change and loss.
3. 1870:Mr.Grierson, Miss Emily's Father, has the family house built in Gothic revival style