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By William Faulkner Please make at least three statements involving at least a man, a woman and an apartment. Then try designing a plot based on these statements. E.g. A man fell in love with a woman when looking for an apartment.A woman killed a man for an apartment.A man was died in an apartment, with a woman. Local legends and gossip frequently served as the spark for Faulkner’s stories. As John B. Cullen, writing in Old Times in Faulkner Country, notes, “A Rose for Emily,” Faulkner’s first nationally published short story, was based on the tale of Oxford’s aristocratic “Miss Mary” Neilson, who married Captain Jack Hume, the charming Yankee foreman of a street-paving crew, over her family’s shocked protests. According to Cullen, one of Faulkner’s neighbors said he created his story “out of fears and rumors” –the dire predictions of what might happen if Mary Neilson married her Yankee. Cultural Context: The Old South has been idealized as a land of prosperous plantations, large white houses, cultured people, and a stable economy based on cotton. Like any utopia, however, this picture is a distortion. It hides many of the unpleasant, even appalling, realities of plantation life—one of which was slavery. Still, long after the Civil War (1861-1865), with much of the South destroyed and beset by economic hardship, the myth persisted among many white Southerners (like Emily and her neighbors) as a kind of nostalgia for a golden age. Reading Time Are the events arranged in chronological order? If no, what are the sequence of events? And why? Can you find examples of foreshadowing? How does foreshadowing enrich the story? What kind of person was Miss Emily? Who are the characters in conflict with Emily? Which part do you think is the climax of the story?  What do you think about the ending? Who might this narrator be? How do you suppose the narrator might know so much about Emily? Why do you think the narrator use we instead of I? When asked at a seminar at the