When asked at a seminar at the university of virginia about the meaning of the title "a rose for emily," faulkner replied, "oh, it's simply the poor woman had no life at all. her father had kept her more or less locked up and then she had a lover who was about to quit her, she had to murder him. it was just a 'a rose for emily'--that's all." in another interview, asked the same question, he replied, "i pitied her and this was a salute, just as if you were to make a gesture, a salute, to anyone; to a woman you would hand a rose, as you would lift a cup of sake to a man." what do you make of faulkner's responses