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Arranging events in the text 1. Homer's arrival in town 2. The aldermen's visit 3. Emily's purchase of poison 4. Colonel Sartoris's decision to remit Emily's taxes 5. The development of the oder 6. Emily's father's death 7. The arrival of Emily's relatives 8. Homer's disappearance Questions 1. Why
weren't there suitable suitors for Emily?
2. Why
does Emily take up with Homer Barron?
3. What
happened when he left? Did he abandon her? Why did he come back?
4. Why
did she kill him?
5. Why
did the smell disappear after only one week?
6. How
did the hair come to be on the pillow? 7. Did
she lie beside the corpse? How often, for what period of years?
8. Why
did she not leave the house for the last decade of her life?
9. How
crazy was she (unable to distinguish fantasy from reality)?
10. Why
does she allow so much dust in her house?
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