1: How would you describe "the old order" of the South in Faulkner's "A Rose for Emily" and what strategies do you think Faulkner uses to create his critique of it? Be sure to refer to point of view, setting, plot/structure (time, chronology), characterization or anything that you find especially effective. Please refer to three of these. (50 pts)

2: Discuss the irony in "The Story of an Hour." Why is it important that we learn of a name change, thatthe main character is represented as she is coming down the stairs, and that she experiences what shedoes in her room, and why is it important that the cause of her death is announced by the doctors? Whatis it they don't "get"? Why is it important to Louise's story that they get to make the last pronouncement? Utilize three elements of fiction in your answer and discuss HOW the author uses them to create these meanings. (50 pts)

Part Two:

In just two or three sentences, identify each story by title, the author,and the element of fiction most at work and the significance of the passage (i.e., what it tells usabout the theme, situation, character or message of the story--including any relevant literary style or historical period at work). Be sure to address the most important element: scene's significance in the plot, orsetting, or characterization, or irony, or point of view. Each of these is worth 20 pts.

1: "Then, if there be no tangible thing to hoot, he feels, perhaps, the desire to confront a personification and indulge in pleas, bowed to one knee, and with hands supplicant, saying, 'Yes, but I love myself.'

A high cold star on a winter's night is the word he feels that it says to him. Thereafter he knows the pathos of his situation."

2: "Then we noticed that in the second pillow was the indentation of a head. One of us lifted something from it, and leaning foward, that faint and invisible dust dry and acrid in the nonstrils, we saw a long strand of iron-gray hair."

3: "but what if the baker won't let me feel the bread?"

4: "In the shallows, face downward, lay the oiler. His forehead touched the sand that was, periodically, between each wave, clear of the sea."

5: "[He] knows he is leaving out a lot. He is leaving out the insides of history. History was always justnames and dates to him. It occurs to him that building a house out of logs is similarly emptytoosimple."