Read the quoted parts carefully and answer the questions in English. “they rose when she entered——a small, fat woman in in black, with a thin gold chain descending to her waist and vanishing into her belt, leaning on an ebony cane with a tarnished gold head. Her skeleton was small and spare; perhaps that was why what would have been merely plumpness in another was obesity in her. She looked bloated, like a body long submerged in motionless water, and of that pallid hue. Her eyes, lost in the fatty ridges of her face, looked like two small pieces of coal pressed into a lump of dough as they moved from one face to another while the visitors stated their errand.”
What can you infer from the passage about the protagonist?
【正确答案】：
EMILY, THE PROTAGONIST, IS ECCENTRIC. SHE REFUSES TO GO OUT AND TO ACCEPT THE PASSAGE OF TIME, THE INEVITABLE CHANGE AND LOSS THAT ACCOMPANIES IT. SHE IS A SYMBOL OF THE OLD SOUTH AND A PRISONER OF THE PAST. 
【题目解析】：主人公艾米丽性格古怪。她拒绝外出，拒绝接受时间流逝的现实，以及随着时间流逝而带来的不可避免的改变和遗失。她是南北战争前的美国南方的象征，是活在过去的囚犯。