给艾米丽的玫瑰花

3. As the affair continues and her reputation is further compromised,she goes to the store to purchase arsenic. 4. "I want some poison," she said to the druggist. She was over thirty then, still a slight woman, though thinner than usual, with cold, haughty black eyes in a face the flesh of which was strained across the temples and about the eyesockets as you imagine a lighthouse- keeper's face ought to look. "I want some poison," she said. "Yes, Miss Emily. What kind? For rats and such? I‘d recom--“ "I want the best you have. I don't care what kind."
In section 3 1. Homer soon becomes a popular figure in town and is seen taking Emily on buggy rides on Sunday afternoons. 2. At first we were glad that Emily would have an interest,because that ladies all said, “Of course a Grierson would not think seriously of a Northerner, a day laborer.’’But there were still others, older people, who said that even grief could not cause a lady to forge noblesse oblige.
纳税事件 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. She 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.
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Miss Emily sat in the window with the light behind her. What people could see was her silhouette, a dark figure seen against a light background. In this image She didn’t look like a living person but an idol, or a goddess. Such a image suited her rigid and stubborn personality, her arrogant character.
4.We had long thought of them as a 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 front door. 从爱米丽与她父亲的站姿可以看出，在她们家 是父权的天下。她父亲对她要求很严厉，把所有向 她求婚的人都赶走了。
girl to a cloistered and secretive old woman.
is Emily’s father.He is a controlling,looming presence even in death,and the community clearly sees his lasting influence over Emily. 5.Tobe is a black African American, Emily’s servant . 6.Colonel Sartoris is the former mayor of Jefferson.Colonel Sartoris absolves Emily of tax burden after the death of her father.
"But there is nothing on the books to show that, you see We must go by the--" "See Colonel Sartoris. I have no taxes in Jefferson." "But, Miss Emily--" "See Colonel Sartoris." (Colonel Sartoris had been dead almost ten years.) "I have no taxes in Jefferson. Tobe!" The Negro appeared. "Show these gentlemen out."
In section 2 1.The ladies didn’t believe that a man, any man, could keep a kitchen properly. When the terrible smell developed, they thought it was because the manservant didn’t keep the kitchen clean. 2.The next day the mayor received two more complaints. One of them was from a man who came and pleaded to the mayor in a shy and timid way.
Her voice was dry and cold. "I have no taxes in Jefferson. Colonel Sartoris explained it to me. Perhaps one of you can gain access to the city records and satisfy yourselves." "But we have. We are the city authorities, Miss Emily. Didn't you get a notice from the sheriff, signed by him?" "I received a paper, yes," Miss Emily said. "Perhaps he considers himself the heriff . . . I have no taxes in Jefferson."
A Picture of Yoknapatawpha County( a little postage stamp of native soil)
Emily Grierson is a mysterious figure who changes from a vibrant and hopeful young
Character
Homer Barron is a foreman from the North.He is a large man with a dark complexion,a booming voice,and light-colored eyes. Judge Stevens is a mayor of Jefferson. He is eighty years old.
In section1 It was a big,squarish frame house that had once been white,decorated with cupolas and spires and scrolled balconies in the heavily lightsome style of the seventies,set on what had once been our most select street.
The day after Mr.Grierson’s death, the women of the town call on Emily to offer their
condolences.Meeting them at the door,Emily
states that her father is not dead, and she did that for three days.She finally turns her father’s body over for burial.
William Faulkner 威廉姆福克纳
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A Rose for Emily 献给爱米丽的一朵玫瑰花
“A Rose For Emily’’ is a short story by American author William Faulkner first published in the April 30,1930 issues of Forum.This story takes place in Faulkner’s fictional city, Jefferson, Mississippi, in the fictional country.It was Faulkner’s first short story published in a national magazine.