The Misfit, Arnold Friend, and the unnamed narrator in "The Tell-Tale Heart."

  1. Compare The Misfit, Arnold Friend, and the unnamed narrator in "The Tell-Tale Heart." All three characters commit terrible crimes, but how do their motives and degrees of culpability differ? Analyze these characters in light of the excerpt from David Eagleman's Incognito: The Secret Lives of the Brain, and Raymond Tallis' *"Why Blame Me? It was All My Brain's Fault."
  2. Analyze Miss Emily's character in *"A Rose for Emily." Are you convinced that she murdered Homer Baron? What evidence suggests that she did? What are the limitations of this evidence? In other words, what else could have been the cause of Homer Baron's death? To what extent do you find Miss Emily to be a sympathetic character when you take her whole life into consideration? How would you describe her mental stability at various times in her life? In addition to the discovery of Homer Baron's decayed corpse during the final scene, what does the "iron gray hair" on the pillow next to him reveal? What do you think of the story's title?