The hair suggests not
only that Misshas been
sleeping with the dead body in the attic bedroom, but that she has been
doing
so recently. If the hair were of a different color (not grey), we might have assumed
that
the habit of sleeping with the body was an old one, not a recent
one.
Sunday, January 8, 2012
a rose for emily What significance do you see in the strand of iron-gray hair found on the second pillow?
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