They rose when she entered-a small, fat woman 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.】 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.
Questions:
A. Who is the writer of the story? What is the title of the story?
B. What's the meaning of the underlined sentences?
C. What can you infer from the passage about the protagonist?
【正确答案】：A.Faulkner, A Rose for Emily
B.Because of her small frame, a little exfra weight, which made women of larger frame look fat，made her excessively fat.
C.Emily, the protagonist, is eccentric. She refuses to go out and to aceept the passago of time, or the inevitable change and loss that accompanies it. She is a symbol of the Old South and a prisoner of the past.
