A Rose for Emily 送给艾米丽的玫瑰

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A Rose for EmilyWilliam Faulkner【原文解读】过去几年一直在讲《英美短篇小说解读与译赏》（自编讲义），每讲一次，对福克纳的这篇小说都有一种新的认识，都有一种翻译的冲动，一旦动笔翻译，便在标题上卡壳了。

但正式决定要试着翻译这篇小说而收集相关评论时，才发现此篇小说早已有人译为《献给爱米丽的玫瑰》。

许多评论家都对此篇小说的主题给出了不同的看法，并找出了各种理由一定要“献给”爱米丽玫瑰。

其最终原因，他们的解读因为根据汉语译文标题《献给爱米丽的玫瑰》。

为什么一定要“献给”爱米丽的玫瑰”呢？爱米丽因为什么而值得“献给”玫瑰呢？这是专家们喜闻乐道、争论不断的话题。

尽管如此，仍然禁不住原文小说的诱惑，也禁不住想亲自动手翻译的冲动。

专家们对小说内容的分析给自己的翻译提供不少的理解上的帮助；他们的论争也同时加深了自己对原文的理解。

此篇小说翻译理解时，参阅过肖明翰博士对此篇小说的研究论文（肖明翰，再谈《献给爱米丽的玫瑰》———答刘新民先生，四川师范大学学报社会科学版2000年1月）。

他认为，此篇小说试图说明杰弗逊镇上的人及其以清教思想为核心的旧传统是造成爱米丽的悲剧的真正原因。

【翻译津要】尽管原文标题有寓意，但寓意如何，因人而已。

不同的人往往会有不同的理解。

这就是为什么不同的学者对这篇小说有不同的解读。

毕竟理解是一种阐释过程，但凡阐释必有主观性，翻译也是一种阐释，也必有译者的主观性。

从翻译的角度和读者的角度，个人感觉标题译为“悲情玫瑰”更好，因为全文中唯一出现rose(玫瑰)的地方是小说的第五部分中(171)A thin, acrid pall as of the tomb seemed to lie everywhere upon this room decked and furnished as for a bridal: upon the valance curtains of faded rose color, upon the rose-shaded lights, upon the dressing table, upon the delicate array of crystal and the man’s toilet things backed with tarnished silver, silver so tarnished that the monogram was obscured.其中rose一共出现过两次：rose color和rose-shaded lights。

a-rose-for-emily。献给爱丽丝的玫瑰。最完整的英语ppt。

However, Faulkner spent much of his time observing ordinary townspeople as well, and this is why he was able to capture the voice of the common people of Jefferson in the character of the narrator.He won two Pulitzer Prizes, a National Book Award, and the Nobel Prize for Literature.
His first short story collection, These 13 (1931), includes "A Rose for Emily", "Red Leaves", "That Evening Sun", and "Dry September".
Major Works
Three novels, The Hamlet, The Town and The Mansion, known collectively as the Snopes Trilogy
Faulkner belonged to a once-wealthy family of former plantation owners. Both parents came from wealthy families reduced to genteel (上流社会的) poverty by the Civil War.
The Author The Background
The Plots The Themes Techniques

A Rose For Emily(献给艾米丽的玫瑰花)

试析《纪念爱米丽的一朵玫瑰花》中的时间艺术与死亡主题摘要美国杰出的现代小说大家威廉·福克纳的短篇小说《纪念艾米丽的一朵玫瑰花》运用了时序颠倒与循环叙事的独特艺术手法，从而展示了现代主义小说中关于时间艺术的理解和运用。

而福克纳更是将自己的时间观贯彻到了整篇小说的创作中，并在死亡主题这一特殊形式的的叙述中得到了深刻的体现。

关键词《纪念艾米丽的一朵玫瑰花》时间死亡威廉·福克纳最负盛名的短篇小说《纪念爱米丽的一朵玫瑰花》讲述了一位没落的南方贵族小姐亲手杀死自己的爱人，然后陪伴其尸身并在古屋中隐居四十之久的具有哥特式神秘、恐怖意味的故事。

南方淑女爱米丽小姐是旧贵族的象征，对于她的纪念是作为南方作家的福克纳对于逝去的旧南方的无限缅怀之情。

但另一方面，爱米丽的最终死亡也喻示了一座纪念碑的倒下，表明了作者对于最终湮没的南方社会既眷念热爱又批判其沉沦罪恶的矛盾心态。

时间，在传统现实主义小说的叙事中往往呈线性发展，“故事和情节小说遵循着时间的线形关系、事件的连锁关系体现为一种因果关系和时间上的线性顺序，任何外部事件都依赖于这样一种时间的线性关系”。

①在《纪念艾米丽的一朵玫瑰花》这篇小说文本当中，我们很容易发现它的最大艺术特色就是时序的颠倒与循环叙事。

小说以爱米丽之死为叙述的起点，站在杰斐逊镇居民的视角上进行叙事，作者以倒叙的手法描述了爱米丽生前的几个主要事件。

在颠倒的时间顺序中，首先叙述的是爱米丽拒绝纳税事件，然后是富有神秘气息的尸臭事件，接着作者却把时间往过去推进，则出现了父亲之死，再接下来的与北方工头荷默恋爱及他与爱米丽发生冲突后爱米丽去购买砒霜，紧接下来荷默的消失与爱米丽小姐长达四十年的隐居生活之谜在小说的最后一部分终于被揭开。

古屋中楼上的房间中竟然躺着死去了四十年的荷默，“那尸身躺在那里，显出一度是拥抱的姿势，但那比爱情更能持久，那战胜了爱情的煎熬的永恒的长眠已经使他驯服了。

”②更让人心惊的是尸身旁边的枕头上遗留了爱米丽小姐的“一绺长长的铁灰色头发”。

A rose for Emily----献给艾米丽的玫瑰

Representative works
The Sound and the Fury《喧哗与骚动》 Sanctuary《圣殿》 Absalom, Absalom!《押沙龙，押沙龙！》 Go Down, Moses《去吧，摩西》
Dry September 《干燥的九月》
The Sound and the Fury《喧哗与骚动》
• After the death of her father, Emily, who had nothing, soon fell in love with Homer(黑默), the Yankee foreman（北方佬工头） who had come to the town to build the railroad. But Emily could not get rid of the family dignity and the influence of her father.
Notable works: The Sound and the Fury《喧哗与骚动》 As I Lay Dying《我弥留之际》 Light in August《八月之光》 Go Down. Moses 《去吧，摩西》
Notable awards: Nobel Prize in Literature 1949 Pulitzer Prize for Fiction 1954, 1963
:
• The use of metaphor (暗喻的使用) • Stream of consciousness（意识流） • Multi-angle narrative technique （多角度叙事） • Characters complex psychological changes,

A-Rose-For-Emily

• Another aspect of the Southern Gothic style is appropriation and transformation. Faulkner has appropriated the image of the damsel in distress and transformed it into Emily, a psychologically damaged spinster. Her mental instability and necrophilia恋尸癖 have made her Southern Gothic heroine.
• It reflects the decline of the southern society. In this background, due to the restriction of the traditional ideas, some people are imprisoned in the past and ignore the passage of time.
• 门砰地一下踹开了，顿时屋里好像弥漫着灰尘。房间好像曾是一间装饰一新旳新房，如今如坟墓一般发出淡淡旳、呛人旳气味，到处渗透出阴森森气氛：褪色了旳玫瑰色窗帘，阴暗旳玫瑰色灯光，梳妆台，一排精细旳水晶饰品，还有白银底色旳盥洗用具，但是白银制品已经失去旳光泽，连刻在上面旳笔迹也都看不清了。其中有一条硬领和领带，好像是从身上取下来旳，然后提起来，在台面上留下淡淡旳月牙形尘埃痕迹。椅子上挂着一套精心折叠旳衣服；椅子下是两只寂寞旳鞋子，还有一双丢弃旳袜子。
【原文解读】
• 此段对爱米丽旳卧室环境进行了细节描写。文学作品中一切环境描写都具有一定旳意图，此段描写也烘托出一种悲情气氛，并点出小说旳主题：玫瑰（—爱情—婚姻—死亡）(171)。此处是整篇小说中玫瑰唯一出现旳地方。

A-Rose-for-Emily主题分析

“Of course a Grierson would not think seriously of a Northerner, a day laborer.”
“格里尔生家的人绝对不会真的看中一个北方佬，一个拿日工资的人。”
“even grief could not cause a real lady to forget noblesse oblige.”
A Rose for Emily represents Faulkner‘s greatest achievements in the writing of short stories. Modernist writing techniques are skillfully used by Faulkner to tell the tragic life of Emily to show the incompatible inner spiritual world of American South in a specific period which is aimed at exploring the eternal theme of conflicts in human heart. Profoundly reflects southern aristocratic(贵族的 [ə,rɪstə'krætɪk]) decline and decay, and the friction and conflict between the emerging capitalism（资本主义）and the old forces , and the contradiction between old and new values in the period of social change .

Emily

福克纳小说献给艾米丽的玫瑰a rose for emily赏析来源于爱英语吧_人们之所以寂寞,是因为他们不去修桥,反而筑墙将自己围堵起来. ----埃默森 A ROSE FOR EMILY是威廉．福克纳非常著名的短篇小说，它特殊之处就在于它能够让人全神灌注地把整篇看完，之后仍然意犹未尽，又多么希望把整个故事说给别人听；虽然结局令人痛苦不堪，可是发人深省。

A ROSE FOR EMIL Y是一篇以爱为主轴的小说,也许它不浪漫也不激情，但在某些小地方总不经意的透出一丝感人的气息。

小说A Rose for Emily的主人公Emily，是南方的一个旧式大族在Jefferson镇最后的存留者。

小说从Emily去世讲起，并不是严格的顺序或倒叙，似乎随着叙述者兴趣点的转移，即兴地从一个事件讲述到另一个事件。

当然了，前面的所有都是为了结尾高潮的铺垫。

读到结尾，前面的那些零散的事件就变得脉络清晰了。

对于故事中的Emily小姐的一生，如果按照时间的顺序，大致是这样的吧：Emily小姐出身于老南方的一个显赫家族，当然，到了她这里，就只剩下门第的光辉和一座逐渐破败的老宅了。

在Jefferson镇，她是Grierson家族唯一的继承人。

镇上的人们对这个家族有一种习惯性的敬畏。

Emily小姐的父亲，严厉、专制、傲慢，认为所有的年轻人都配不上他的女儿，毫不留情地将Emily小姐的追求者们都赶出门外。

等到她的父亲去世的时候，Emily小姐已经年过三十，尚是单身。

除了一所老旧的大宅，她什么都没有了。

镇长先生免去了她的税务，并发明出一个理由来，说他的父亲曾经给了镇上资助，因此镇上要以这种方法进行报答。

而这居然被当时的人们接受了（虽然理由并不让人信服）。

此时Jefferson镇来了北方的建筑队，其中有一个工头叫Homer Barron，是那种极讨人喜欢的人，颇受当地人欢迎。

很快Homer获得了Emily小姐的青睐，俩经常在周末乘坐马车一起出去。

《献给艾米丽的玫瑰》介绍

摘要《献给艾米丽的玫瑰》是美国南部小说的代表人物威廉• 福克纳发表的，被誉为最富盛名的短篇小说代表作。

在这篇小说中,作者塑造了一个没落的南方贵族小姐------艾米丽在个人与杜会传统与现实相冲突的狭缝中同她的心上人相爱但最终又毒死他并与其尸骨共眠的故事。

本文意在从现代工业文明，南方贵族文化及父权制度，和心理角度分析艾米丽悲剧成因。

关键字：福克纳，艾米丽，悲剧成因。

第一章1.1 作者及作品简介威廉·福克纳（William Faulkner 1897-1962），是美国文学史上一位举足轻重的人物，号称南方文艺复兴的旗手和南方文学的领袖。

他的作品卷迭浩繁，10部长篇小说和几十篇短篇小说为人们谱写了一部现代美国南方的编年史。

福克纳的创作生涯包括三个阶段。

一是“习作阶段”，作品有《大理石牧神》，《士兵的报酬》，《群蚁》。

第二阶段是鼎盛时期，作品包括《沙多里斯》，《喧哗与骚动》，《我弥留之际》，《圣殿》，《押沙龙，押沙龙》。

第三个阶段---“巩固和确认阶段---以《去吧，摩西》，《村子》，《小镇》等为代表。

1.2文献综述《献给爱米丽的玫瑰》发表于1930年4月的《论坛》杂志上。

该短篇因其凝练的笔触、精巧的构思,以及极富个性的人物形象的塑造,堪称为可与其长篇杰作相媲美的短篇代表作故事以玛丽·路易斯·奈尔逊小姐为原型,讲述了在南方杰弗逊小镇一位贵族老处女因爱生恨,毒杀情人,终身与尸首相伴,过着隐居生活的悲剧故事。

透过福克纳冷峻的描述,读者看到了南方种植园文化形态———父亲权威、女性神话的最触目惊心的体现,看到了“令人们无法安眠,它屈曲了人们的性格,绞扭着人们的心灵的南方的过去”。

（冯亦代: 《献给艾米丽的玫瑰》,广东人民出版社,1980 ,第77页。

）苗群鹰(广州大学外国语学院,广东广州510405)认为艾米丽的悲剧是由父亲的马鞭，“纤细而又刚强的一根红线”，和“带刺的玫瑰”三部分造成的。

献给Emily的玫瑰

A Rose for Emily 献给艾米丽的玫瑰-Chapter 01WHEN Miss Emily Grierson died, our whole town went to her funeral: the men through a sort of respectful affection for a fallen monument, the women mostly out of curiosity to see the inside of her house, which no one save an old man-servant--a combined gardener and cook--had seen in at least ten years.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. But garages and cotton gins had encroached and obliterated even the august names of that neighborhood; only Miss Emily's house was left, lifting its stubborn and coquettish decay above the cotton wagons and the gasoline pumps-an eyesore among eyesores. And now Miss Emily had gone to join the representatives of those august names where they lay in the cedar-bemused cemetery among the ranked and anonymous graves of Union and Confederate soldiers who fell at the battle of Jefferson.Alive, Miss Emily had been a tradition, a duty, and a care; a sort of hereditary obligation upon the town, dating from that day in 1894 when Colonel Sartoris, the mayor--he who fathered the edict that no Negro woman should appear on the streets without an apron-remitted her taxes, the dispensation dating from the death of her father on intoperpetuity. Not that Miss Emily would have accepted charity. Colonel Sartoris invented an involved tale to the effect that Miss Emily's father had loaned money to the town, which the town, as a matter of business, preferred this way of repaying. Only a man of Colonel Sartoris' generation and thought could have invented it, and only a woman could have believed it.When the next generation, with its more modern ideas, became mayors and aldermen, this arrangement created some little dissatisfaction. On the first of the year they mailed her a tax notice. February came, and there was no reply. They wrote her a formal letter, asking her to call at the sheriff's office at her convenience. A week later the mayor wrote her himself, offering to call or to send his car for her, and received in reply a note on paper of an archaic shape, in a thin, flowing calligraphy in faded ink, to the effect that she no longer went out at all. The tax notice was also enclosed, without comment.They called a special meeting of the Board of Aldermen. A deputation waited upon her, knocked at the door through which no visitor had passed since she ceased giving china-painting lessons eight or ten years earlier. They were admitted by the old Negro into a dim hall from which a stairway mounted into still more shadow. It smelled of dust and disuse--a close, dank smell. The Negro led them into the parlor. It was furnished in heavy, leather-covered furniture. When the Negro openedthe blinds of one window, they could see that the leather was cracked; and when they sat down, a faint dust rose sluggishly about their thighs, spinning with slow motes in the single sun-ray. On a tarnished gilt easel before the fireplace stood a crayon portrait of Miss Emily's father.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.She did not ask them to sit. She just stood in the door and listened quietly until the spokesman came to a stumbling halt. Then they could hear the invisible watch ticking at the end of the gold chain.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 himselfthe sheriff . . . I have no taxes in Jefferson.""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."So SHE vanquished them, horse and foot, just as she had vanquished their fathers thirty years before about the smell.That was two years after her father's death and a short time after her sweetheart--the one we believed would marry her --had deserted her. After her father's death she went out very little; after her sweetheart went away, people hardly saw her at all. A few of the ladies had the temerity to call, but were not received, and the only sign of life about the place was the Negro man--a young man then--going in and out with a market basket."Just as if a man--any man--could keep a kitchen properly, "the ladies said; so they were not surprised when the smell developed. It was another link between the gross, teeming world and the high and mighty Griersons.A neighbor, a woman, complained to the mayor, Judge Stevens, eightyyears old."But what will you have me do about it, madam?" he said."Why, send her word to stop it," the woman said. "Isn't there a law? " "I'm sure that won't be necessary," Judge Stevens said. "It's probably just a snake or a rat that nigger of hers killed in the yard. I'll speak to him about it."The next day he received two more complaints, one from a man who came in diffident deprecation. "We really must do something about it, Judge. I'd be the last one in the world to bother Miss Emily, but we've got to do something." That night the Board of Aldermen met--three graybeards and one younger man, a member of the rising generation. "It's simple enough," he said. "Send her word to have her place cleaned up. Give her a certain time to do it in, and if she don't. ..""Dammit, sir," Judge Stevens said, "will you accuse a lady to her face of smelling bad?"So the next night, after midnight, four men crossed Miss Emily's lawn and slunk about the house like burglars, sniffing along the base of the brickwork and at the cellar openings while one of them performed a regular sowing motion with his hand out of a sack slung from his shoulder. They broke open the cellar door and sprinkled lime there, and in all the outbuildings. As they recrossed the lawn, a window that had been dark was lighted and Miss Emily sat in it, the light behind her, andher upright torso motionless as that of an idol. They crept quietly across the lawn and into the shadow of the locusts that lined the street. After a week or two the smell went away.That was when people had begun to feel really sorry for her. People in our town, remembering how old lady Wyatt, her great-aunt, had gone completely crazy at last, believed that the Griersons held themselves a little too high for what they really were. None of the young men were quite good enough for Miss Emily and such. 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. So when she got to be thirty and was still single, we were not pleased exactly, but vindicated; even with insanity in the family she wouldn't have turned down all of her chances if they had really materialized.When her father died, it got about that the house was all that was left to her; and in a way, people were glad. At last they could pity Miss Emily. Being left alone, and a pauper, she had become humanized. Now she too would know the old thrill and the old despair of a penny more or less. The day after his death all the ladies prepared to call at the house and offer condolence and aid, as is our custom Miss Emily met them at the door, dressed as usual and with no trace of grief on her face. She toldthem that her father was not dead. She did that for three days, with the ministers calling on her, and the doctors, trying to persuade her to let them dispose of the body. Just as they were about to resort to law and force, she broke down, and they buried her father quickly.We did not say she was crazy then. We believed she had to do that. We remembered all the young men her father had driven away, and we knew that with nothing left, she would have to cling to that which had robbed her, as people will.SHE WAS SICK for a long time. When we saw her again, her hair was cut short, making her look like a girl, with a vague resemblance to those angels in colored church windows--sort of tragic and serene.The town had just let the contracts for paving the sidewalks, and in the summer after her father's death they began the work. The construction company came with riggers and mules and machinery, and a foreman named Homer Barron, a Yankee--a big, dark, ready man, with a big voice and eyes lighter than his face. The little boys would follow in groups to hear him cuss the riggers, and the riggers singing in time to the rise and fall of picks. Pretty soon he knew everybody in town. Whenever you heard a lot of laughing anywhere about the square, Homer Barron would be in the center of the group. Presently we began to see him and Miss Emily on Sunday afternoons driving in the yellow-wheeled buggy and the matched team of bays from the livery stable.At first we were glad that Miss Emily would have an interest, because the 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 real lady to forget noblesse oblige- -without calling it noblesse oblige. They just said, "Poor Emily. Her kinsfolk should come to her." She had some kin in Alabama; but years ago her father had fallen out with them over the estate of old lady Wyatt, the crazy woman, and there was no communication between the two families. They had not even been represented at the funeral.And as soon as the old people said, "Poor Emily," the whispering began. "Do you suppose it's really so?" they said to one another. "Of course it is. What else could . . ." This behind their hands; rustling of craned silk and satin behind jalousies closed upon the sun of Sunday afternoon as the thin, swift clop-clop-clop of the matched team passed: "Poor Emily." She carried her head high enough--even when we believed that she was fallen. It was as if she demanded more than ever the recognition of her dignity as the last Grierson; as if it had wanted that touch of earthiness to reaffirm her imperviousness. Like when she bought the rat poison, the arsenic. That was over a year after they had begun to say "Poor Emily," and while the two female cousins were visiting her."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."The druggist named several. "They'll kill anything up to an elephant. But what you want is--""Arsenic," Miss Emily said. "Is that a good one?""Is . . . arsenic? Yes, ma'am. But what you want--""I want arsenic."The druggist looked down at her. She looked back at him, erect, her face like a strained flag. "Why, of course," the druggist said. "If that's what you want. But the law requires you to tell what you are going to use it for."Miss Emily just stared at him, her head tilted back in order to look him eye for eye, until he looked away and went and got the arsenic and wrapped it up. The Negro delivery boy brought her the package; the druggist didn't come back. When she opened the package at home there was written on the box, under the skull and bones: "For rats."So THE NEXT day we all said, "She will kill herself"; and we said it would be the best thing. When she had first begun to be seen with HomerBarron, we had said, "She will marry him." Then we said, "She will persuade him yet," because Homer himself had remarked--he liked men, and it was known that he drank with the younger men in the Elks' Club--that he was not a marrying man. Later we said, "Poor Emily" behind the jalousies as they passed on Sunday afternoon in the glittering buggy, Miss Emily with her head high and Homer Barron with his hat cocked and a cigar in his teeth, reins and whip in a yellow glove.Then some of the ladies began to say that it was a disgrace to the town and a bad example to the young people. The men did not want to interfere, but at last the ladies forced the Baptist minister--Miss Emily's people were Episcopal-- to call upon her. He would never divulge what happened during that interview, but he refused to go back again. The next Sunday they again drove about the streets, and the following day the minister's wife wrote to Miss Emily's relations in Alabama.So she had blood-kin under her roof again and we sat back to watch developments. At first nothing happened. Then we were sure that they were to be married. We learned that Miss Emily had been to the jeweler's and ordered a man's toilet set in silver, with the letters H. B. on each piece. Two days later we learned that she had bought a complete outfit of men's clothing, including a nightshirt, and we said, "They are married." We were really glad. We were glad because the two female cousins were even more Grierson than Miss Emily had ever been.So we were not surprised when Homer Barron--the streets had been finished some time since--was gone. We were a little disappointed that there was not a public blowing-off, but we believed that he had gone on to prepare for Miss Emily's coming, or to give her a chance to get rid of the cousins. (By that time it was a cabal, and we were all Miss Emily's allies to help circumvent the cousins.) Sure enough, after another week they departed. And, as we had expected all along, within three days Homer Barron was back in town. A neighbor saw the Negro man admit him at the kitchen door at dusk one evening.And that was the last we saw of Homer Barron. And of Miss Emily for some time. The Negro man went in and out with the market basket, but the front door remained closed. Now and then we would see her at a window for a moment, as the men did that night when they sprinkled the lime, but for almost six months she did not appear on the streets. Then we knew that this was to be expected too; as if that quality of her father which had thwarted her woman's life so many times had been too virulent and too furious to die.When we next saw Miss Emily, she had grown fat and her hair was turning gray. During the next few years it grew grayer and grayer until it attained an even pepper-and-salt iron-gray, when it ceased turning. Up to the day of her death at seventy-four it was still that vigorous iron-gray, like the hair of an active man.From that time on her front door remained closed, save for a period of six or seven years, when she was about forty, during which she gave lessons in china-painting. She fitted up a studio in one of the downstairs rooms, where the daughters and granddaughters of Colonel Sartoris' contemporaries were sent to her with the same regularity and in the same spirit that they were sent to church on Sundays with a twenty-five-cent piece for the collection plate. Meanwhile her taxes had been remitted.Then the newer generation became the backbone and the spirit of the town, and the painting pupils grew up and fell away and did not send their children to her with boxes of color and tedious brushes and pictures cut from the ladies' magazines. The front door closed upon the last one and remained closed for good. When the town got free postal delivery, Miss Emily alone refused to let them fasten the metal numbers above her door and attach a mailbox to it. She would not listen to them. Daily, monthly, yearly we watched the Negro grow grayer and more stooped, going in and out with the market basket. Each December we sent her a tax notice, which would be returned by the post office a week later, unclaimed. Now and then we would see her in one of the downstairs windows--she had evidently shut up the top floor of the house--like the carven torso of an idol in a niche, looking or not looking at us, we could never tell which. Thus she passed from generation togeneration--dear, inescapable, impervious, tranquil, and perverse.And so she died. Fell ill in the house filled with dust and shadows, with only a doddering Negro man to wait on her. We did not even know she was sick; we had long since given up trying to get any information from the NegroHe talked to no one, probably not even to her, for his voice had grown harsh and rusty, as if from disuse.She died in one of the downstairs rooms, in a heavy walnut bed with a curtain, her gray head propped on a pillow yellow and moldy with age and lack of sunlight.THE NEGRO met the first of the ladies at the front door and let them in, with their hushed, sibilant voices and their quick, curious glances, and then he disappeared. He walked right through the house and out the back and was not seen again.The two female cousins came at once. They held the funeral on the second day, with the town coming to look at Miss Emily beneath a mass of bought flowers, with the crayon face of her father musing profoundly above the bier and the ladies sibilant and macabre; and the very old men --some in their brushed Confederate uniforms--on the porch and the lawn, talking of Miss Emily as if she had been a contemporary of theirs, believing thatthey had danced with her and courted her perhaps, confusing time with its mathematical progression, as the old do, to whom all the past is not a diminishing road but, instead, a huge meadow which no winter ever quite touches, divided from them now by the narrow bottle-neck of the most recent decade of years.Already we knew that there was one room in that region above stairs which no one had seen in forty years, and which would have to be forced. They waited until Miss Emily was decently in the ground before they opened it.The violence of breaking down the door seemed to fill this room with pervading dust. A thin, acrid pall as of the tomb seemed to lie everywhere upon this room decked and furnished as for a bridal: upon the valance curtains of faded rose color, upon the rose-shaded lights, upon the dressing table, upon the delicate array of crystal and the man's toilet things backed with tarnished silver, silver so tarnished that the monogram was obscured. Among them lay a collar and tie, as if they had just been removed, which, lifted, left upon the surface a pale crescent in the dust. Upon a chair hung the suit, carefully folded; beneath it the two mute shoes and the discarded socks.The man himself lay in the bed.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 nightshirt, 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.Then we noticed that in the second pillow was the indentation of a head. One of us lifted something from it, and leaning forward, that faint and invisible dust dry and acrid in the nostrils, we saw a long strand of iron-gray hair.。

a rose for emily标题理解

a rose for emily标题理解
“A Rose for Emily”的标题可以理解为“给爱米莉的玫瑰”。

这个标题暗示了这篇小说的主题和情感，即关于爱、失去和怀念的故事。

玫瑰通常被视为爱情的象征，而“给爱米莉的玫瑰”则暗示了这篇小说是关于对某个人的怀念和纪念。

整篇小说围绕着爱米莉的生活和情感展开，讲述了她的爱情、痛苦和孤独，同时也揭示了她内心的矛盾和挣扎。

通过标题和故事的结合，作者表达了对逝去爱情的怀念和对生命的思考，使整个故事充满了深沉和感人的情感。

A Rose for Emily《给艾米丽的玫瑰》 PPT

落后、非人性的南方文化在文明的现代化面前崩溃的必然性；文明取代野蛮、进步战胜落后的不可抗拒性。艾米丽的悲剧除了个人性格的悲剧外，更多的来自于社会、时代和民族的悲剧，爱米丽之死标志着南方习俗文化的终结，喻示着一个新的文明时代的开启。
2 Before the Civil War 南北战争之前
THE NORTH
Transportation:was easier in the North, which boasted more than two-thirds of the railroad tracks in the country and the economy was on an upswing.
Education:Northern children were slightly more prone to attend school than Southern children.
Between 1800 and 1860, the percentage of laborers working in agricultural pursuits dropped drastically from 70% to only 40%. Slavery had died out, replaced in the cities and factories by immigrant labor from Europe.
1 The Setting -- Jefferson 杰斐逊州
YOKNAPATAWPHA 约克纳帕塔法世系
§Jefferson is the county seat of the imaginary Yoknapatawpha County (Faulkner often used this setting in his works)

从叙事声音与视角看福克纳《献给艾米丽的玫瑰》的三个中译本

2021-01文艺生活LITERATURE LIFE说文解字从叙事声音与视角看福克纳《献给艾米丽的玫瑰》的三个中译本黄利华（广东培正学院，广东广州510800）摘要:美国作家威廉·福克纳的短篇小说《献给艾米丽的玫瑰》的主要叙事特色在于第一人称复数叙述者以及多重声音和视角的运用等。

目前国内该小说主要的三个中译本基本上保留了原文在叙事层面的这些特色，但由于原文叙事人称代词的多变性和模糊性以及叙述视角的偶然的切换等因素，导致了译文中的一些误译、漏译和错译。

关键词:福克纳；《献给艾米丽的玫瑰》；三个中译本；叙事声音；叙事视角中图分类号：I106文献标识码：Ａ文章编号：1005-5312（2021）03-0055-02DOI：10.12228/j.issn.1005-5312.2021.03.027一、引言法国结构主义叙事学家热奈特(Genette)在《辞格之三》（Figures III）中将叙事作品分为三个层次：故事（histoire），所讲述的故事的内容；叙事话语（recit），读者所读到的文本以及叙述行为（narration），产生话语的行为或过程[1]。

故事的内容是相对固定的，但是故事讲述的方式却有很多种。

所以一般用叙事学的理论来研究文学作品，主要是从叙事话语方面。

热奈特在其《叙事话语》（Narrative Discourse）中从时间（tense）、语式（mood）和语态（voice）三方面探讨了小说的叙事话语层面。

时间方面主要是研究故事时间和文本时间之间的关系；语式主要探讨叙述距离及叙述视角问题；语态主要涉及叙述者与故事的关系[2]。

方开瑞曾指出，我们可以参照热奈特提出的结构分析模式，从时间、语式、和语态三方面对源本和译本进行对比研究[3]。

威廉·福克纳（William Faulkner,1897-1962）被认为是“20世纪小说家中一位伟大的小说技巧实验家”[4]6，其短篇小说《献给爱米莉的玫瑰》（“A Rose for Emily”）的主要叙事特色体现在第一人称复数叙述者以及多重声音和视角的运用等。

a rose for emily

1.诺贝尔文学奖得主,美国南方文学杰出代表作家威廉福克纳(WilliamFaulkner)以其气势恢宏的∀Yokanpatawtha小说系列而享誉美国及世界文坛。

献给艾米莉的玫瑰!被认为是他最著名的短篇小说。

它以美国南北战争后南北双方新旧秩序的冲突为背景,讲述了在杰弗逊这个南方小镇的故事。

福克纳以凝练的笔触、独特的结构、娴熟的创作手法塑造了一个耐人寻味的悲剧人物形象∃∃∃艾米莉格里尔逊。

小说中的主人公艾米莉出生名门,受过良好的教育,深受南方的传统文化道德影响的她具有优雅的举止、顺从的性格和执着的责任心。

父亲生前,她一直伴随在他身边,父亲死后,她单枪匹马、坚韧不拔地继续承担起捍卫自己家族荣誉与特权的责任。

她以自己近乎怪诞的方式,维持着自己家族在杰佛逊镇的特殊地位。

这篇给人带来强烈震撼的作品,其独到之处不仅在于它情节怪异、恐怖,而且因为女主人公艾米莉具有浓重的悲剧色彩。

艾米莉受到了传统伦理观念的强力禁锢,对情感与婚姻的渴望被扼杀,致使她成了茕茕孑立的老处女,心理发生了畸变,残忍地杀害了她的情人,与腐烂的尸体相伴,度过了生命的最后时光。

在这篇小说中,福克纳运用了包括如象征、伏笔及故事时序颠倒等诸多创作手法,极大地提升了这篇小说的艺术价值。

2.艾米莉人物形象解读福克纳笔下的艾米莉是位复杂、丰满而又立体的人物形象,是一个典型的矛盾性人物。

一方面,她在父亲生前既是父权主义思想和清教主义为代表的南方传统的牺牲品,在父亲死后她又成为小镇人们寻求过去的寄托,却又无可奈何地延续着虚无缥缈的荣耀;另一方面,对爱情和美好生活的渴望又迫使她一次次地反叛传统,追求自己的自由和幸福。

在她的身上,我们不仅能看到传统遗留下来的痕迹,而且也能看到她在传统的桎梏中挣扎,为追寻希望而付出的艰辛努力。

(一)南方社会的维护者和受害者。

美国南北战争的结束意味着南方过去的辉煌成为历史,南方神话彻底破灭,然而绝大多数南方人却无法接受这一现实,为了留住那美好的回忆和过去的荣耀,他们竭尽全力去维护南方旧的价值观,保留传统的风俗习惯并且小心翼翼地呵护着曾经十分显赫的没落贵族的飘零子弟。

A Rose For Emily(献给艾米丽的玫瑰花)

而福克纳更是将自己的时间观贯彻到了整篇小说的创作中，并在死亡主题这一特殊形式的的叙述中得到了深刻的体现。

南方淑女爱米丽小姐是旧贵族的象征，对于她的纪念是作为南方作家的福克纳对于逝去的旧南方的无限缅怀之情。

但另一方面，爱米丽的最终死亡也喻示了一座纪念碑的倒下，表明了作者对于最终湮没的南方社会既眷念热爱又批判其沉沦罪恶的矛盾心态。

①在《纪念艾米丽的一朵玫瑰花》这篇小说文本当中，我们很容易发现它的最大艺术特色就是时序的颠倒与循环叙事。

小说以爱米丽之死为叙述的起点，站在杰斐逊镇居民的视角上进行叙事，作者以倒叙的手法描述了爱米丽生前的几个主要事件。

”②更让人心惊的是尸身旁边的枕头上遗留了爱米丽小姐的“一绺长长的铁灰色头发”。

A-rose-for-Emily中英译本

A_Rose_for_Emily献给爱米丽的一朵玫瑰花一、爱米丽·格利尔逊小姐走了,全镇的人都去送葬：男人们是出于敬慕之情，因为一座丰碑倒塌了;女人们大多出于好奇之心，都想到爱米丽屋里看个究竟.除了一个园丁兼厨师的上了年纪的男仆外,至少已经十年都没有人进去看过了.那是一幢曾经漆成白色的方形大木屋，圆圆的顶阁，尖尖的塔顶,涡形花纹的阳台，尽显出浓浓的七十年代轻松愉快的风格。

房屋所在的街道曾经是全镇最为繁华之地.但这里早已被附近的汽修厂和扎棉机侵占了,就连那些庄严的名字也被吞噬得一干二净;岿然不动的,只有爱米丽小姐的房子，虽有破败之势，却依然显得执拗不训，风韵犹存,与周围的四轮棉花车和汽油泵一样，太过碍眼了。

如今爱米丽小姐也进入了那些具有代表性的庄严的名字行列之中，他们长眠在雪松环拥的墓地里，那是南北战争时期杰斐逊战役中阵亡的军人之墓,有的是南方军人，有的是北方士兵；有的是高职位，有的是无名氏。

生前,爱米丽小姐代表着一个传统、一种职责；她既是人们关注的目标，也是全镇传承下来对她应尽的义务，这种义务是从一八九四年开始的,当时的镇长萨特里斯上校——还颁布了一道命令：严禁黑人妇女不系围裙上街-—豁免了她各种税款；这种特惠政策从她父亲去世之日开始，一直到她不在人世之时为止。

这并不是说爱米丽爱占人们的便宜，而是萨特里斯上校编造了一套不清不楚的瞎话，说什么爱米丽的父亲曾贷款给镇政府,而镇政府，作为交易,以这种方式偿还.这种瞎话，只有萨特里斯上校那一代人以及像他那样的脑袋的人才瞎编的出来,也只有女人们才会相信这种瞎话。

到了第二代人，他们当上了镇长和议员，思想更加前卫，便对这种免税约定产生了一丝不满。

那年元旦，他们寄给她一张纳税通知单，可是到了二月，依然没有回信。

他们给她发了一封公函，要她方便时到镇治安办公室去一趟.一周后，镇长亲自书函一封给她，表示愿意登门拜访，或派车接她；镇长得到的回信却是一张便条，字是写在一张古香古色的信笺上，书法流利，字迹纤细，墨迹已干,大意是说，她根本不再外出。

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.

献给艾米丽的玫瑰概要写作英语作文

献给艾米丽的玫瑰概要写作英语作文全文共10篇示例，供读者参考篇1Title: A Rose for Emily: A Special GiftHey guys, I want to share with you a super cool story about a girl named Emily and a rose. So, one day, Emily received a super beautiful rose from her best friend, Lily. Emily was so happy and touched by this thoughtful gift.The rose was so vibrant and colorful, just like Emily's personality. She took really good care of it, watering it every day and making sure it had enough sunlight. Emily even talked to the rose, telling it all her secrets and dreams.As time passed, the rose started to bloom even more beautifully, much to Emily's delight. She would show it off to everyone who came to visit her, beaming with pride. The rose became a symbol of friendship and love between Emily and Lily.One day, during a storm, the rose got damaged and Emily was heartbroken. But instead of giving up, Emily decided to use the petals of the rose to make a special potpourri as a thank yougift for Lily. She carefully collected the petals and mixed them with her favorite scents.When Lily received the potpourri, she was so moved by Emily's gesture. She knew how much the rose meant to Emily and how much effort she put into making the potpourri. It was a beautiful reminder of their friendship and the special bond they shared.From that day on, Emily and Lily's friendship grew even stronger, just like the beautiful rose that brought them together. It was a reminder that even in the toughest times, a simple gift of love and friendship can make all the difference.So, guys, remember to cherish your friendships and never underestimate the power of a simple gesture of kindness. Just like Emily's rose, it can bloom into something truly special and meaningful in your life.篇2Title: A Rose for Emily Summary written by a Primary School StudentHi guys, I wanna tell you about this super cool story called "A Rose for Emily". It's about this lady named Emily who lives in asmall town. She's really mysterious and people are always curious about her.So, the story starts with the townspeople finding out that Emily has passed away. They go to her house to see her one last time and that's when they discover something really shocking. Emily has been keeping a secret for many years, and it's so surprising!The story then goes back in time and tells us all about Emily's life. She was once a beautiful young girl, but something happened in her past that changed her forever. She becomes lonely and isolated, and people in the town start talking about her.There's also a part in the story where Emily falls in love with a guy named Homer. People don't really approve of their relationship, but Emily doesn't care. She's determined to be with him no matter what.In the end, we find out the big secret that Emily has been hiding all these years. It's sad and kind of creepy, but it makes you think about how people can be so lonely and desperate sometimes.I really liked reading "A Rose for Emily". It's a bit scary but also really interesting. I hope you guys check it out too!篇3Title: A Rose Dedicated to EmilyToday, I want to tell you a story about my friend Emily. She is the kindest and most beautiful person I have ever met. She has a big heart and is always there to help others.One day, I decided to give Emily a special gift to show her how much I appreciate her friendship. I knew that she loves roses, so I decided to give her a beautiful rose as a symbol of our friendship.I went to the store and picked out the most beautiful rose I could find. It was a vibrant shade of red and had a sweet fragrance that filled the room. I knew that Emily would love it.When I gave Emily the rose, she was so surprised and touched. She smiled and said it was the most thoughtful gift she had ever received. I could see that she was really happy and that made me happy too.From that day on, Emily kept the rose in a vase on her desk. Every time I saw it, I was reminded of the special bond we shareas friends. The rose became a symbol of our friendship and a reminder of the love and care we have for each other.I am so grateful to have a friend like Emily in my life. She is truly a blessing and I will cherish our friendship forever. I hope that the rose continues to bloom and remind us of the beautiful bond we share.篇4Title: A Rose for EmilyHey guys! Today I want to talk about a story called "A Rose for Emily". It's about a lady named Emily who lived in a big old house in a small town. Everyone in the town was curious about her because she was kind of mysterious and never came out of her house.Emily's dad was really strict and didn't want her to date anyone. But one day, she fell in love with a guy named Homer Barron. They were so in love and happy together. But then, Homer disappeared and nobody knew where he went.As the years went by, Emily's house started to look old and rundown. People in the town were worried about her but she didn't want their help. Eventually, Emily passed away and thetownspeople went into her house. What they found was shocking - Homer's body was lying on the bed, next to a single rose.It turns out that Emily had been keeping Homer's body all these years because she couldn't bear to be alone. The story is really sad and kind of creepy, but it teaches us that love can make people do crazy things.So, that's the story of "A Rose for Emily". It's a really haunting and touching tale that you should definitely check out. See you next time!篇5Title: A Rose for Emily - A SummaryHi guys! Today I'm going to tell you about a super cool story called "A Rose for Emily" that we read in class. It's about a lady named Emily who lives in a big old house in our town.So, the story starts with Emily's funeral and everyone in town going to see her in her house. Then, it goes back in time to when Emily was a young girl. She was kind of a strange lady, and the townspeople were always gossiping about her.One day, Emily meets a guy named Homer Barron and they start spending a lot of time together. But then, Homer disappears and nobody knows what happened to him. It's all very mysterious!As Emily gets older, she becomes even more isolated and spends all her time in her house. The townspeople are curious about her and try to get inside the house, but she always refuses to let them in.In the end, we find out that Homer's body is in Emily's house and she's been sleeping next to it all these years. It's so creepy and sad!So, that's the gist of "A Rose for Emily." It's a spooky and sad story, but I really liked reading it. I hope you guys check it out too! Bye!篇6Title: A Rose for Emily SummaryHey guys, today I want to tell you all about this story I read called "A Rose for Emily" which is all about this lady named Emily who lives in a small town. It's a pretty cool story, so let me share the summary with you!So, Emily is this mysterious lady who lives in a really old house in the town. A lot of people in the town are curious about her because she never comes out or talks to anyone. She's like a real-life ghost! But there's this one guy in town who is in love with her, his name is Homer. He tries to get close to Emily, but she's always alone and keeps to herself.As the story goes on, we find out that Emily's dad was super strict and never let her date anyone. So when Homer starts hanging out with her, people in the town get really mad because they think he's not good enough for her. But Emily doesn't care, she's just happy to have someone who wants to be with her.But then, something super shocking happens - Homer disappears! No one knows where he went, and Emily is acting all weird about it. People start gossiping and wondering if she had something to do with it. It's a real mystery!In the end, we find out that Homer never left Emily's house - he's been dead this whole time! Emily has kept his body hidden in her bedroom all these years. It's so creepy and sad at the same time.So, that's the story of "A Rose for Emily" - it's a mix of mystery, love, and tragedy. If you like spooky stories with a twist, you should definitely check it out!篇7Today, I want to write a special article for my best friend Emily. I will call it "A Rose for Emily". Emily is the best friend in the world. She is kind, funny, and always there for me when I need her.Emily loves roses, especially pink ones. She says they make her feel happy and loved. So, I decided to write this article as a special surprise for her. I hope she likes it!First, I want to talk about why Emily is so special to me. She always listens to me when I have a problem and gives me the best advice. She is also super funny and can always make me laugh, even when I'm feeling sad. I am so lucky to have her as my friend.Next, I want to talk about why roses are so special. Roses are beautiful flowers that come in many different colors. They smell amazing and can brighten up anyone's day. Emily always says that roses are her favorite flower because they remind her of all the beauty and joy in the world.I also want to talk about how Emily and roses are similar. Just like roses, Emily is beautiful, kind, and brings happiness wherevershe goes. She is like a rose in full bloom, spreading love and joy to everyone around her.In conclusion, I want to say thank you to Emily for being the best friend in the world. You are like a rose in my life, bringing beauty and happiness every day. I hope you like this article and know how much you mean to me. Thank you for being you, Emily.I love you!篇8Title: A Rose for Emily SummaryHey guys, today I want to tell you about a story called "A Rose for Emily" by William Faulkner. It's a really interesting story with a lot of twists and turns, so I hope you enjoy hearing about it!The story is set in a small town in the southern United States, and it's about a woman named Emily Grierson. Emily is a bit of a mysterious lady who lives in a big old house all by herself. The townspeople are curious about her and her life, especially because she never seems to go out or talk to anyone.As the story goes on, we learn more about Emily's past and her relationship with a man named Homer Barron. Thetownspeople are shocked when they find out that Emily and Homer are seeing each other, because Homer is a Yankee and that's a big deal in the South. But then Homer disappears, and people start to wonder what happened to him.In the end, we find out the shocking truth about Emily and Homer, and it's definitely not what anyone expected. I won't give away the ending, but let's just say that it's a real surprise!So that's a quick summary of "A Rose for Emily." I hope you enjoyed hearing about it, and maybe you'll want to read the whole story for yourself to find out what happens!篇9To Emily's RoseHey everyone, gather 'round, I've got a story to tell about my friend Emily! Emily is the nicest person you'll ever meet, always smiling and helping others. She's like a beautiful rose in our school garden, brightening up our day with her kindness.One day, Emily's birthday was coming up and we wanted to do something special for her. We decided to give her a surprise party with lots of decorations and yummy treats. We all workedtogether to make it perfect, just like how Emily always helps us with our school projects.When Emily arrived at the party, she was so surprised and happy. She couldn't stop smiling and thanking us for the thoughtful gesture. We gave her a big bouquet of roses, her favorite flower, to show her how much we appreciate her friendship.As Emily looked at the roses, she said, "These are the most beautiful roses I've ever seen, just like each one of you." We all felt so touched by her words and knew that our friendship was as precious to her as the roses were to us.From that day on, we made sure to cherish our friendship with Emily like a delicate rose, nurturing it with love and care. She may be just one person, but to us, she's a whole garden of happiness and positivity.So, here's to Emily, our lovely rose, may your days be filled with sweet fragrance and blooming joy. Thank you for being the sunshine in our lives!篇10Title: A Special Gift for Emily – Summary of "A Rose for Emily"Once upon a time in a small town, there was a lovely lady named Emily. She lived in a big house all by herself. People in the town always thought she was a bit strange because she never came out to talk to anyone.One day, Emily received a gift from a mysterious man. It was a beautiful rose. The rose was the most perfect and fragrant flower she had ever seen. Emily was so happy and kept the rose in a vase in her room.Every day, Emily would take care of the rose, watering it and making sure it had enough sunlight. The rose bloomed more and more beautifully each day, and it filled Emily's heart with joy.As time passed, Emily started to open up more to the people in the town. She would invite them over to see her rose and tell them stories about how she received it. The once lonely and isolated Emily had become a beloved member of the community.The rose became a symbol of hope, love, and friendship in the town. It brought people together and brightened everyone's day. And Emily's heart was filled with gratitude for the special gift she had received.In the end, Emily decided to plant more roses in her garden and share their beauty with everyone. The town was never the same again, all thanks to the simple but precious gift of a rose.。

A Rose for Emily主题分析

美国独立后，南方和北方沿着两条不同的道路发展。从19世纪20 年代起，北部和中部各州开始了工业革命，而在南方，则实行的是黑人奴隶制度，南北矛盾和斗争自19世纪起日趋激烈。后来，美国内战爆发了。北方在战争中的胜利，内战消灭了奴隶制，但是黑人在内战后的重建时期仍受到多方面的歧视和种植场主的剥削。
“身段苗条，穿着白衣的艾米丽小姐立在背后，她父亲叉开双脚的侧影在前面，背对艾米丽，手执一根马鞭，一扇向后开的前门恰好嵌住了他们俩的身影。”
“Crayon portrait” “父亲的炭笔画像”
The heroine's father was representative of the
南北战争前后的美国南方，以骑士精神和淑女风范傲然于世，对妇女贞操
福克纳出生在美国南方一个没落贵族家庭，这样的身世对福克纳的文学创作影响深远。
威廉·福克纳的15部长篇与绝大多数短篇的故事都发生在约克纳帕塔法县，称为“约克纳帕塔法世系”。其主要脉络是这个县杰弗生镇及其郊区的属于不同社会阶层的若干个家族的几代人的故事。
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Novel titles：A Rose for Emily Chinese name：《献给艾米丽的一朵玫瑰花》
也译作《纪念艾米丽的一朵玫瑰花》
Published time：In April 1930 Author：William Faulkner 威廉·福克纳
Birthplace: Mississippi in the United States

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A ROSE FOR EMIL Y的中文一厨师的老仆人之外，至少已有十年光景谁也没进去看看这幢房子了。

那是一幢过去漆成白色的四方形大木屋，坐落在当年一条最考究的街道上，还装点着是汽车间和轧棉机之类的东西侵犯了这一带庄严的名字，把它们涂抹得一干二净。

只有爱米装模作样，真是丑中之丑。

现在爱米丽小姐已经加入了那些名字庄严的代表人物的行列，他们沉睡在雪松环绕的墓园之中，那里尽是一排排在南北战争时期杰斐逊战役中阵亡的南方和北方的无名军人墓。

打一八九四年某日镇长沙多里斯上校——也就是他下了一道黑人妇女不系围裙不得上街的命令——豁免了她一切应纳的税款起，期限从她父亲去世之日开始，一直到她去世为止，这是全镇沿袭下来对她的一种义务。

这也并非说爱米丽甘愿接受施舍，原来是沙多里斯上校编造了一大套无中生有的话，说是爱米丽的父亲曾经贷款给镇政府，因此，镇政府作为一种交易，宁愿以这种方式偿还。

这一套话，只有沙多里斯一代的人以及像沙多里斯一样头脑的人才能编得出来，也只有妇道人家才会相信。

示愿意登门访问，或派车迎接她，而所得回信却是一张便条，写在古色古香的信笺上，书法流利，字迹细小，但墨水已不鲜艳，信的大意是说她已根本不外出。

纳税通知附还，没有表示意见。

参议员们开了个特别会议，派出一个代表团对她进行了访问。

他们敲敲门，自从八年男仆把他们接待进阴暗的门厅，从那里再由楼梯上去，光线就更暗了。

一股尘封的气味扑鼻而来，空气阴湿而又不透气，这屋子长久没有人住了。

黑人领他们到客厅里，里面摆设的笨重家具全都包着皮套子。

黑人打开了一扇百叶窗，这时，便更可看出皮套子已经坼裂；等他们坐了下来，大腿两边就有一阵灰尘冉冉上升，尘粒在那一缕阳光中缓缓旋转。

壁炉前已经失去金色光泽的画架上面放着爱米丽父亲的炭笔画像。

她一进屋，他们全都站了起来。

一个小模小样，腰圆体胖的女人，穿了一身黑服，一条细细的金表链拖到腰部，落到腰带里去了，一根乌木拐杖支撑着她的身体，拐杖头的镶金已经失去光泽。