What is meaningful in the final detail that the strand of hair on the secondpillow is “iron-gray”?
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- After Homer Barron’s mysterious disappearance, Miss Emily is not seen on the streets of Jefferson for almost six months, although her Negro servant continues to come and go from the house with his market basket. When they next see Emily, “she had grown fat and her hair was turning gray. During the next few years it grew grayer and grayer until it attained an even pepper-and-salt iron gray”— the color her hair stays until her death at age seventy-four (par. 48). The narrator sets
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up this detail early enough so the reader knows, and will not have forgotten, that this long “vigorous” iron-gray hair belongs to no one other than Emily Grierson. From the detail that the strand of hair is iron-gray, it appears that Emily lay beside Homer’s body recently, many years after it was already rotten. In fact, she had probably lain beside it many times, for the pillow next to the body is clearly indented with a head.
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It comes as no surprise that a student's level of self-confidence ___ directly to his or her performance. a. distinctions b. enhances c. walks of life d. correlates
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