For a long while we just stood there, looking down at the profound and fleshless grin. The body had apparently once lain in the attitude of an embrace, but now the long sleep that outlasts love, that conquers even the grimace of love had cuckolded hi

For a long while we just stood there, looking down at the profound and fleshless grin. The body had apparently once lain in the attitude of an embrace, but now the long sleep that outlasts love, that conquers even the grimace of love had cuckolded him. What was left of him, rotted beneath what was left of the night-shirt, had become inextricable from the bed in which he lay; and upon him and upon the pillow beside him lay that even coating of the patient and biding dust. Questions: A. Identify the author and the title of the work from which the quoted part is taken. B. What devices does the author use to narrate the story? C. What does the underlined sentence mean?

【答案A】Faulkner. A Rose for Emily.【答案B】Faulkner makes best use of the Gothic devices to narrate the story.【答案C】 Emily has been sleeping with the dead body, which made him the man whose wife has committed adultery.