ABSTRACT
This book began with a tiny question that we can nowfinally-answer. Confronted with Faulkner's tableau, "Miss Emily a slender figure in white in the background, her father a spraddled silhouette in the foreground, his back to her and clutching a horsewhip, the two of them framed by the back-flung door," five readers came up with five dramatically different readings. Our question was, What is the something in each of their characters that made their perceptions of the tab leau differ?
