Just like the house, Miss Emily is a picture of fallen splendor. The house is described as having “once been white,” a clean, fresh color, and having “cupolas and spires,” which are lavish decorations found only on the most grandiose homes. Similarly, Miss Emily used to be beautiful and desired, described as “a slender figure in white,” but has fallen far as the ravages of time left her as a "small, fat women in black." Her home is now “an eyesore among eyesores,” suggesting that the house has become old and dilapidated, just as her life has slowly broken down over time. The house “smelled of dust and disuse,” representing that Miss Emily has become old and uncared for. There is no one left around her beyond her servant, leaving her almost completely alone. The villagers “did not even know she was sick” although she had been “sick for a long time.” Similarly, the neighborhood surrounding her was over- run by warehouses and cotton gins; nobody lives there anymore.
-Kailyn Nash, Abby Ault, Thomas Whitaker
Your group did a splendid job on comparing Miss Rose and her house. The only feedback we have is that we believe you could have used more complex quotes from the story. We felt that majority of you paragraph was made up of short quotes. What other quotes do you think you could have used in relation to your topic? What other information could you add about the town?
Erica Camarillo, Dalena Ho, Alfredo Cortez
Thankyou for your criticism.Although we believe that our quotes were enough, perhaps we could haveused a quote refering to the "august" neighborhood or the "coquettish decay." We also feel that we could have been more descriptive by adding a quote which further describes how seclyded and deserted the house was. For instence the women in particular wanted to "see the inside of her house" because " no one save an old man-servant--a combined gardener and cook--had seen in at least ten years."
To answer your second question, we didn't go into much detail about the town because we wanted to concentrate more on the house and its surroundings. -Kailyn Nash, Abby Ault, Thomas Whitaker
The metaphor of Miss Emily’s house
Just like the house, Miss Emily is a picture of fallen splendor. The house is described as having “once been white,” a clean, fresh color, and having “cupolas and spires,” which are lavish decorations found only on the most grandiose homes. Similarly, Miss Emily used to be beautiful and desired, described as “a slender figure in white,” but has fallen far as the ravages of time left her as a "small, fat women in black." Her home is now “an eyesore among eyesores,” suggesting that the house has become old and dilapidated, just as her life has slowly broken down over time. The house “smelled of dust and disuse,” representing that Miss Emily has become old and uncared for. There is no one left around her beyond her servant, leaving her almost completely alone. The villagers “did not even know she was sick” although she had been “sick for a long time.” Similarly, the neighborhood surrounding her was over- run by warehouses and cotton gins; nobody lives there anymore.
-Kailyn Nash, Abby Ault, Thomas Whitaker
Your group did a splendid job on comparing Miss Rose and her house. The only feedback we have is that we believe you could have used more complex quotes from the story. We felt that majority of you paragraph was made up of short quotes. What other quotes do you think you could have used in relation to your topic? What other information could you add about the town?
Erica Camarillo, Dalena Ho, Alfredo Cortez
Thankyou for your criticism.Although we believe that our quotes were enough, perhaps we could haveused a quote refering to the "august" neighborhood or the "coquettish decay." We also feel that we could have been more descriptive by adding a quote which further describes how seclyded and deserted the house was. For instence the women in particular wanted to "see the inside of her house" because " no one save an old man-servant--a combined gardener and cook--had seen in at least ten years."
To answer your second question, we didn't go into much detail about the town because we wanted to concentrate more on the house and its surroundings.
-Kailyn Nash, Abby Ault, Thomas Whitaker