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Analysis of "A Rose for Emily"姓名：＊*＊＊学号：***＊＊班级**** Like so many American writers, Faulkner found himself again and again writing short stories，some of which are considered as equally important as his best novels. Good as his short stories are，they seem always at the threshold of being absorbed into the Yoknapatawpha saga —that legendary matrix which is Faulkner’s real achievement. However，for a beginner of Faulkner scholarship，his short stories may well be an easy start。

“A Rose for Emily" is Faulkner’s first short story published in 1930. Set in the town of Jefferson in Yoknopatawpha，the story focuses on Emily Grierson，an eccentric spinster who refuses to accept the passage of time, or the inevitable change and loss that accompanies it。

Simple as it is in plot, the story is pregnant with meaning. As a descendent of the Southern aristocracy, Emily is typical of those in Faulkner’s Yoknapatwapha stories who are the symbols of the Old South but the prisoners of the past。

ARoseforEmily英文分析及简评

“A Rose for Emily” is divided into five sections.The first section opens with a description of the Grierson house in Jefferson. The narrator mentions that over the past 100 years, Miss Emily Grierson’s home has fall into disrepair and become “an eyesore among eyesores.” The first sentence of the story sets the tone of how the citizens of Jefferson felt about Emily: “When Miss Emily Grierson died, our whole town went to the 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 manservant – a combined gardener and cook – had seen in at least ten years.”It is known around town that Emily Grierson has not had guests in her home for the past decade, except her black servant who runs errands for her to and from the market. When a new city council takes over, however, they begin to tax her once again. She refuses to pay the taxes and appear before the sheriff, so the city authorities invite themselves into her house. When confronted on her tax evasion, Emily reminds them that she doesn't have to pay taxes in Jefferson and to speak to Colonel Sartoris, although he had died 10 years before.In section two, the narrator explains that the Griersons had always been a very proud Southern family. Mr. Grierson, Emily’s father, believes no man is suitable for his daughter and doesn't allow her to date. Emily is largely dependent upon her father, and is left foundering when he dies. After Mr. Grierson's death, Emily does not allow the authorities to remove his body for three days, claiming he is still alive. She breaks down and allows authorities to take the body away for a quick burial.Section three introduces Emily’s beau, Homer Barron, a foreman from the north. Homer comes to Jefferson with a crew of men to build sidewalks outside the Grierson home. After Emily and Homer are seen driving through town several times, Emily visits a druggist. There, she asks to purchase arsenic. The druggist asks what the arsenic is for since it was required of him to ask by law. Emily does not respond and coldly stares him down until he looks away and gives her the arsenic. When Emily opens the package, underneath the skull and bones sign is written, "For Rats."Citizens of Jefferson believe that Miss Emily is going to commit suicide since Homer has not yet proposed in the beginning of section four. The townspeople contact and invite Emily's two cousins to comfort her. Shortly after their arrival, Homer leaves and then returns after the cousins leave Jefferson. After staying in Jefferson for one night, Homer is never seen again. After Homer’s disappearance, Emily begins to age, gain weight, and is rarely seen outside of her home. Soon, Miss Emily passes away.The fifth and final section begins with Jefferson women entering the Grierson home. After they arrive, Emily's black servant leaves through the back door without saying a word. After Emily's funeral, the townspeople immediately go through her house. They come across a room on the second floor which no one had seen in 40 years, and break the door down. They discover a dusty room strangely decorated as a bridal room. The room contains a man's tie, suit and shoes, and a silver toilet set which Miss Emily had purchased for Homer years before his disappearance. Homer's remains lay on the bed, dressed in a nightshirt. Next to him is an impression of a head on a pillow where the townspeople find a single “long strand of iron-gray hair.” It is thus implied that not only had Emily killed Homer with the arsenic, but also has had an intimate relationship with his corpse up to her own death.简评：Miss Emily met Homer Baron, a foreman with a construction company, when her hometown was first getting paved streets. Her father had already died but, not before driving away her eligible suitors. As rumors circulate about her possible marriage to a Yankee, Homer leaves town abruptly. During his absence, Miss Emily buys rat poison.When Homer returns, the townspeople see him enter Miss Em ily’s house but not leave. Only when she dies do the townspeople discover his corpse on a bed in her house and, next to it, a strand of Miss Emily’s hair.This Gothic plot makes serious points about woman’s place in society. Throughout the story, the reader is aware that these events are taking place during a time of transition: The town is finally getting sidewalks and mailboxes. More important, values are changing. The older magistrates, for example, looked on Miss Emily paternally and refused to collect taxes from her; the newer ones try, unsuccessfully, to do so.Caught in these changing times, Miss Emily is trapped in her role as genteel spinster. Without a husband, her life will have no meaning. She tries to give lessons in painting china but cannot find pupils for this out-of-date hobby and finally discontinues them. If Homer is thinking of abandoning her, as his departure implies, one can understand her desire to clutch at any sort of union, even a marriage in death.The theme is developed through an exceptionally well-crafted story. Told from a third-person plural point of view, it reveals the reactions of the town to Miss Emily. As this “we” narrator shifts allegiance--now criticizing Miss Emily, now sympathizing with her--the reader sees the trap in which she is caught, and the extensive but unobtrusive fores hadowing prepares the reader for the story’s final revelation without detracting from its force.。

ARoseforEmilySummary

A Rose for Emily SummaryThe story begins at the funeral of Miss Emily Grierson. Nobody has been to her house in ten years, except for her Negro servant. Her house once was the best house but now looks old. There is a special relationship between Emily and the town ever since the cease of collecting her taxes in 1894. Whereas, the new generation didn’t agree with this settlement, so they visit Miss Emily and tried to get her to pay the debt. She flatly refused to pay. About two years after her father died, and her lover disappeared from her life，the townspeople had a strange encounter with Miss Emily about a bad smell at her place. Anyhow, the stink got stronger and complaints were made. The authorities didn't want to bother Emily, so they sprinkled lime around the house and the smell was eventually gone.Everybody felt sorry for Emily when her father died. He left her with the house, but no money. When he died, Emily refused to admit it for three whole days. The town didn't think she was "crazy then," but assumed that she just didn't want to let go of her dad. Next, the story flashes back and tells us that soon after her father died, Emily begins dating Homer Barron, who is a Yankee paving the sidewalk of the town. The town heavily disapproves of their relationship and brings Emily's cousins to town to stop them. Then, Emily is seen buying arsenic at the drugstore, and the town thinks that Homer is leaving her, and that she plans to kill herself. When she buys some men's items, they think that she is marrying Homer. Homer leaves town and then comes back. At last, he is seen entering Emily's house. After that, Emily rarely leaves the house, except for the period when she teaches painting.As Emily gets older and older, she eventually dies in a downstairs bedroom without sunlight. The story reverses back to the beginning —her funeral, when Emily's servant lets in the town women and then leaves forever. After she is buried, the townspeople go upstairs and open the room closed for forty years, in which they find the rotted corpse of Homer Barron. On the pillow next to Homer they find an indentation of a head and a long gray hair.。

ARoseforEmily

A Rose for EmilyIWhen 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. 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。

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 . 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。

SymbolismoftheRoseinARoseforEmily

SymbolismoftheRoseinARoseforEmily第一篇：Symbolism of the Rose in A Rose for EmilySymbolism of the Rose in A Rose for EmilyA rose seems an odd choice for the title of “A Rose for Emily” given the nature of the narrative.Why did William Faulkner make this particular selection?“A Rose for Emily” is a short story about the disturbed life of a local woman living in the post-Civil War South.This article will discuss the symbol of the Rose, and possible reasons why William Faulkner named this story “A Rose for Emily”.The Rose as a Symbol of LoveRoses, in literature and the general daily experience, usually represent love.Roses are given as tokens of affection, as a sign of devotion to the individual to whom they are given.When viewed in this light, the rose seems an odd choice for the title of this story: Emily’s story is disturbing, the tale of a woman obsessed with her own heritage who never understood the true meaning of love.This makes the title ironic, which seems to be Faulkner’s entire point.By using the classic symbol of love to introduce the narrative, he is leading the reader to a consideration of what the components of true love are.Love is not the distorted narcissism that is Emily’s perception;it is a selfless act of giving that builds relationships, not destroys them like in the story.The Rose as a TributeAnother way to look at the rose in the title “A Rose for Emily” is as a token, a tribute.The narrator tells her story, the kind of person Emily was and the personal actions that led to her demise.Again, Faulkner’s irony is apparent.Tributes are usually something positive, a way for onlookers and observers to understand a person or event as it relates to their own lives.Thestory of Emily is anything but positive;it is disgusting, repulsive.So why a tribute? Perhaps it is to serve as a reminder of the ugliness of self-absorption, of the consequences of a life lived without love.The rose is given as a tribute to a hideous person that the reader might be reminded of the importance of self-giving and true devotion.The Rose as a Symbol of Memory Roses are also often used as memories, as a way to preserve a moment in time or to keep a person close to one’s heart.They are dried and kept, not only because they are beautiful, but usually because it is a way to retain a precious time in one’s life.So why would Faulkner use such a symbol of beauty and memory to present the horrific na rrative of “A Rose for Emily”? Firstly, the story is written in the form of a memory, the narrator speaking in the first person about events that to him and the community were very real.Secondly, however terrible the tale may be, it serves as a reminder to the reader that some integral things in a person’s life should never be forgotten: love, devotion, and selflessness.By presenting a woman who possessed none of these attributes, Faulkner calls on his readers to remember the things that make life beautiful, especially love.Hence the rose can be seen as a call to memory.Conclusions DrawnAs a symbol of love, as a tribute, or as a representative of memory, the rose in the title “A Rose for Emily” presents a variety of interpretations.Faulkner is not an author that can be definitively defined by one theory.His writings are able to be analyzed on multiple levels, because this calls the reader to consider all aspects of the information provided and draw one’s own conclusion.His choice of the rose is testimony to this, as there is no one way to interpret its use.The reader must decideFaulkner’s intention.。

AroseforEmily分析(人物-象征-背景)

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A-rose-for-Emily-分析(人物-象征-背景-英文格式正确)

A rose for EmilyThis story happens after the American Civil War，in Jefferson Town. It’s a story about an eccentric spinster named Emily Grierson whose marriage is totally manipulated by her father. Two years after her father’s death，poor Emily is acquainted with a northerner called Homer Barron, a day laborer and she falls in love with him。

However，their relation is short-lived as Homer becomes tired of her and intends to get rid of her. In order to keep Homer at hand, Emily kills him with arsenic and “obtain" him，thus, she sleeps with his corpse for decades。

This is the truth that villagers find after her death。

From my own perspective，this masterpiece reflects the decline of the southern society and reveals the conflicts between the two different value systems and two societies after the American Civil War。

A Rose For Emily 作文

“A Rose For Emily, written by William Faulkner, is a short story about the life and death of Miss Emily Grierson. The story mainly tells that an old maid of the nobility in the town, killed her lover with poison because her love turned into hate, and lived with the dead body together all her life, and because that, she don’t associate with other people, finally ,she died lonely in her house.I have read this story at least three times because I don’t know what the story said. After I read it seriously, I just understand that this story just a suspenseful but also miserable love story. The protagonist is so pitiful and abnormal. In the passage end, we can know that she lived with her lover’s dead body all the time, which is not a normal man could do that. But her crazy behavior is thanks to her father. When her father is alive, she couldn’t choose her lover because no one could approach. In the passage part II, “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.” ,her father didn’t allow anyone approach her. So, it made her feel lonely and empty, which is not a normal man could think. And it is the main reason that made her become crazy.Emily is also pitiful. When she meet her Mr. right, she might think that they would live together with happiness. But the fact is cruel. Homer Barron, her lover, refused to get marry. So, she bought arsenic and killed him because of her blind love. In the part IV, “ And that was the last we saw of Homer Barron.”, we can know that Homer Barron had been killed. Emily just wanted to lived with her lover happily, but it came true by the dead. It is so miserable and pitiful.In fact, Emily is romantic, but is just with some scare. It is good thing for someone to fall in love with an other one. But we should keep calm down, and love others with correct way. Or, it could be a funeral of love.。

MyReviewofARoseforEmily,献给艾米丽的玫瑰英文读后感

MyReviewofARoseforEmily,献给艾⽶丽的玫瑰英⽂读后感My Review of “A Rose for Emily”--By Cave dweller William Faulkner's "A Rose for Emily" is a short story which mainly describes a faded southern aristocrat, Emily Grierson's tragic life. An unnamed narrator vividly tells six impressive anecdotes to present Emily's life with an intelligent use of flashbacks. But after reading the story, we can divide it into six parts according the chronological order.The first part is the death of Emily's father. When her father died, the house is all that is left to her. This part reveals that to a certain extent, her father who has driven away all the young men should be responsible for her tragedy.The second part is Emily's miserable relationship. She falls in love with a foreman named Homer Barron, a dark, ready man, who has no interest in marriage. Then people are told that the man deserts her.The third is "the smell". After her father's death and heart-broken love, she only has a manservant. So her house smells bad. The people in town complain about it. In the end, they solve it by sprinkling lime around her house.The fourth part is Emily's teaching life. She gives lessons in china-painting several years and then closes her front forever.The fifth is the confrontation between Emily and the deputation. The young generation is dissatisfied with the edict of remitting her taxes. They send a deputation to negotiate this problem. But they failed. She vanquished them.The sixth part is Emily's funeral and the discovery of the dead man in her house. After the funeral, people decide to open the room which no one has seen in forty years. Then, they find a dead man in bed.The setting of the story is the declining of the southern aristocrats in America.The novel has been regarded as a Gothic horror tale, a study in abnormal psychology as well as an allegory of the relations between North and South. The novel's name is "A Rose for Emily", it tells little about rose, but much about the tragic heroine, Emily. Therefore,the rose represents Emily, which actually is an elegy sighting the lost prosperity of the South aristocracy. So the memory of the South aristocrats' glory is prominent in southern people's minds, which causes various conflicts and contractions in their psyche. Apparently, Emily is one of these people who think all the past is not a diminishing road but a huge meadow. Emily does not in her time but in the lost glory of South aristocracy. Her eccentric and wired behaviors are the surface of her psychological world which fills with conflicts and complexity. Her own unhealthy psychological world can be considered as a cause of her tragic life. The incorrect family education has caused her tragedy. Her father's archaic thoughts have passive influence on her life. Her father drives away all the young men. Her father interferes in her life too much.。

AroseforEmily情节改写

AroseforEmily情节改写A Rose for EmilyWhen waking up in the morning, people always do not know what’s going to happen, who they are going to meet, or where they are going to wind up…It is a breathless summer day, with a vague resemblance to these angels in colored church windows---sort of tragic and serene.This time the town had just let the contracts for paving the sidewalks, and in the summer after Dad’s death, they began to word. Suddenly, a big, dark, ready man, with a big voice and eyes lighter than his face bust into my mind. (Is he Homer Barron?)It seemes that he is responsible for the construction, however, he is not at work, but he is surrounded by a group of children, chatting. How friendly he is ! Pretty soon, he knew everybody in town. Where there is him, there is pleasure. As I was attracted by his appearance, I don’s dare to talk to him. (As female , I should be restrained.)The next day, he told me that he wanted to date with me, but I don’s know how he get acquaintance to me. Abrubtly, my heart was flooded with pleasure. Finally, he drove in the yellow-wheeled buggy and the matched team of bays from the livery stable. (My life turned different as if he appeared, the oasis in the desert.) He always calmed down my heart.However, I know he is a Yankee, and I am strongly supposed to keep my noblesse oblige because of our different backgrounds. Falling in love with his may be painful to us in the future, so I am deeply convinced that loving him should be stayed by my side.We got to know that it was as if Emily 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.As days went by, I found that he seemed to like men, and it was known that he drank with the younger men in the Elks’ Club---that he was not a marrying man. Worse still, he did not lose his heart to me by heart, but just for a tool for fun. All above made me worried that he didn’s belong to me…Days by days…On a Sunday afternoon in the glittering buggy, with his hat cocked and a cigar in his teeth, Homer Barron reined and whipped in a yellow glove. His appearance liked that a fresh of new blood is injected into my body.However, he told me that he was not the person who I longed for, and we were from different worlds. “I don’t want to be interfered by you”, he shouted, intending to go out. Suddenly,I was beaten by the bluster of the wind and rain. I had been aware of the man who he was…“Wlould you like to have dinner with me?” I pleaded with him.“Just one last dinner…It is the last parting…”“Er…what about tomorrow evening? After tomorrow, we would pay for the last penny…”said Barron.I woke up earlier than ever before the next morning, cooked for all he likes, and groomed myself with elaborate care. (How I wish it would be an unforgettable night just for possessing him tonight. If he leaved me alone, he might not be invited..)My heart swelled with pride at his coming spontaneously…（）----In the eveningBarron was addmitted by the old Negro into a dim hall from which a stairway mounted into still more shadow.We sat at the table, sliently. A score of memories of staying with him were teeming in my mind. A few minutes later, the peaceful fa?ade suddenly had been shattered by his words,“What are you working up to!?”After hearing his words, I realized that he was not the man who he used to be. My heart would not go on, horse and foot.. (Why did you cheat me for the first time? If you did not love me, why did you get together with me? )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.(I have sought it because it relieves loneliness; that teribble loneliness in which one shivering consciousness looks over the rim of the world into the cold unfathomable lifeless abyss. Well, being together with anyone, should leave him by my side. ) Then the time he went way, I put some arsenic into his food and water. (I was made to do it because what I wanted to wasjust for his accompanying with me…)A few minutes later, he came back, “I really have no room for it., and I want to go alone…”As soon as he said this, he turned around and was about to leave. Suddenly, he sank to the ground, with his looking backward, and said “Why is it like that?”I snorted a laugh(冷笑了⼀下)., “Nothing serious, I have just put some arsenic into your water…”“You…, why does this happen?”he groaned.“How could you have the heart to hurt me? I terribly love you, but you can leave me alone without a word…” I cried. “Just…because…I…love you…”he murmured.“Is that why you leave me? Love of my life don’t leave me…!Please…” I sneered.“Why are you feeling so? Haven’t you heard the disguisting words? They considered it a disgrace, to me ,not being serious; toyou, that is quite enormous, don’t you think so?”(Slient…)“I know that it is difficult for us to get together in the future. But I realize that we have not professed ardent affection, why not breaking up before it is too late? I believe that you are surely blessed with a richer life without me…”he explained.I stood in amazement at the sight, “Why do you like men and drank with them in the Elk’s Club all the time?”“That’s the reason…why I try to desert you…I’ d be the last ne in the world to bother your life…”After the words, the body lay breathless on the ground, there being no sign of life…I stood there and felt a stranger…(Why did you cheat me as if you loved me? Don’t you know I deeply love you,and I will always have enough room and love in my heart for all of you? Anyway, whatever happens in the future, we will be together stays together… ) Weakness:climas,plotsAdvantage:vocabulary(N--V),形式dialogueSimple expressions,ironic点明主题Theme:The thorny rose is destined to wither and fade away ultimately. True love dwells on cultivating ,rather than possessing or even occuping.（向往，不懂如何去经营这段爱。

最好的分析Aroseforemily

twentieth century Southern literatureIn the 20th century，with the great development of technologies and economic，especially the WWI and WWII，western countries’old social problems and contradictions were aggravated continuously. New problems also appeared. The two World Wars made the spirit system of western countries’ hardly collapsed.The twentieth century is a flourishing period for the development of American literature, whose main characteristics is irrationalism presented in modernism and post-modernism accompanied with naturalism and post-realism. The flourishing of American literature owns a great deal to the social background both at home and abroad, and to the influence of European ideologies, which is the result of globalization.(1)Special setting:Y oknapatawpha county (a typical small southern town)(2)Characterization:vivid, ―flesh and blood people that will stand up and cast a shadow‖; enjoying the complicated state with little interference(3)Plot:most about history of American South (its rise and fall; glory and evil sides; family story)(4)Theme:in praise of eternal virtues in human history, love, pity, honor and self-sacrifice (Faulkner thought that the doom of the South was caused by ill-treatment of Indians and blacks and the way to change the meaningless modern life is recovering the traditional and eternal virtues.)(5)Point of view: a new and experimental technique –multiple points of view and unreliable narratorStyle:variety from colloquial and dialect to formal and refined; sometimes difficult to understand because of the using of modern techniques, such as stream-of-consciousnessthe themes include Tradition versus Change, The Power of Death, Isolationand Other themes：tensions between North and South, complexities of a changing world order, disappearing realms of gentility and aristocracy, and rigid social constraints placed on women etc. 一Tradition versus Change：Through the mysterious figure of Emily Grierson, Faulkner conveys the struggle that comes from trying to maintain tradition in the face of widespread, radical change. Jefferson is at a crossroads, embracing a modern, more commercial future while still perched on the edge of the past, from the faded glory of the Grierson home to the town cemetery where anonymous Civil War soldiers have been laid to rest. Emily herself is a tradition, staying the same over the years despite many changes in her community. She is in many ways a mixed blessing. As a living monument to the past, she represents the traditions that people wish to respect and honor; however, she is also a burden and entirely cut off from the outside world, nursing eccentricities that others cannot understand.二The Power of Death：Death hangs over “A Rose for Emily,”from the narrator’s mention of Emily’s death at the beginning of the story through the description of Emily’s death-haunted life to the foundering倒塌of tradition in the face of modern changes. In every case, death prevails over every attempt to master it.Emily attempts to exert power over death by denying the fact of death itself. Her refusal of givingup the body of her father and her odd ―marriage‖ with Homer reveal her disturbing attempt to fuse life and death. However, death ultimately triumphs.三Isolation："A Rose for Emily" is a story about the extremes of isolation –by physical and emotional. This Faulkner classic shows us the process by which human beings become isolated by their families, by their community, by tradition, by law, by the past, and by their own actions and choices. In effect, this story takes a stand against such isolation, and against all those who isolate others. When you get through with this story, you might feel the urge to take a nice stroll in the county, or at least take a spin around the park. Go! Breathe the air; feel the sunshine; visit a friend. 一Writing Technique of A Rose for EmilyAbstract: The language of this novel is very special. The author uses some figure of speech which is rather interesting and amazing. What we should pay more attention is the Writing Technique of this novel, which enables the article more vivid and attractive.1 The Writing Techniques: Skillful Rhetoric, Unique Imagination Thought-Provoking Implication.2 Tone: Conversational, gossipy, Mysterious, Bizarre, strange Grotesque, Southern Gothic, Conversational, gossipy.3 Language style: Long, complicated sentences, big, bookish words, Lots of description, not much dialogue.Skillful Rhetoric: At the very beginning, the author describes Miss Emily’s house ―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‖. Naturally, the house is just a common object and has no typical characteristics. However, it is the author that endow Emily’s house with human features by using ―Stubborn‖ and ―coquettish‖.Unique Imagination: ―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 author is good at adding some extra feelings subjectively to an irrelevant object, just as the description of Miss Emily’s house.Thought-Provoking Implication: There is also a very interesting description in her funeral. ―The very old men –some in their brushed Confederate uniforms.‖ n fact, Miss Emily represents some brave people who have courage to challenge the feudalism. It is the reason why the author molded her rebel.。

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aroseforEmily故事发展When Miss Emily’s father died, it got about that the house was all that was left to her. Miss Emily couldn’t believe it and cut her hair.The town had just let the contracts for paving the sidewalks, and in the summer after her father's death they began the work. And here came a foreman named Homer Barron. Then Miss Emily and Homer Barron were in love. People in the town thought she would marry him. But 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. People in the town 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 they learned that she had bought a complete outfit of men's clothing, including a nightshirt, and people believed that they were married.And then Miss Emily was seen buying poisons, people thought that she was going to kill herself. Three days later, 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 time people saw him.Some people complained to the mayor that there was a bad smell fro m Miss Emily’s home. So the mayor and another 3 member of Board of Aldermen broke open the cellar door and sprinkled lime there, and in all the outbuildings. Miss Emily saw them. After a week or two the smell went away. In 1894, the mayor remitted her taxes, the dispensation dating from the death of her father on into perpetuity. When the next generation became mayors and aldermen, this arrangement created somelittle dissatisfaction. On the first of the year they mailed her a tax notice, but Miss Emily replied a note without comment. So they had to visit her, but were driven out by her.Daily, monthly, yearly, each December people sent her a tax notice, which would be returned by the post office a week later, unclaimed.Thus she passed from generation to generation, and so she died in one of the downstairs rooms. The whole town went to her funeral. Already people 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. When they entered the room they saw the man lay in the bed. And they found that Miss Emily slept with the corpse every night before she died.。

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WRITING SKILLS of A Rose for Emily1. Story StructurePart I: Emily's death; She pays no taxes.Part II: The strange smelling of Emily's house; Emily's father passed awayPart III:Love with Homer; Emily buy poisonPart IV: The Emily's old age; Emily's deathPart V: Emily's funeral; People found the corpse（尸体）2. Figurative languageSimile（明喻）•Her eyes, lost in the fatty ridges of her face, looked like two small pieces of coal pressed into a lump of dough. Personification（拟人）•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 andcoquettish decay above the cotton wagons and the gasolinepumps-an eyesore among eyesores.techniques---重点部分Suspense （悬念）I think the writing skill the author use most is “suspense”, at the beginning of the novel there are several questions we cannot get through , . why the whole town went to her funeral ? W hat the “ fallen monument’ represent for ? Why the women were full of curiosity to the inside of her house ? What exactly was in Emily”s house ?With so many questions we have to deal with , we are full of interests and curiosity to read the following text and find the answers.And at the other parts of the text , there are suspenses as well ,. why the house of noble Emily send out bad smell ? Is the arsenic(砒霜) really for mice ？SymbolIt seems that a teem is going to give us a detail explanation .Here we just give a brief introduction.The text have an unique title—“A Rose for Emily”,but the true flower—rose does not appear from the beginning to the end .T his is a symbol. I think the “rose” have severe symbols, .a)Love .Emily did not get Homer”s true love, but the authorwant to give a “rose ” for her ,showing humanisticemotion .b)Emily herself. As the present of the old society ,she isa rose full of thorns.(带刺的玫瑰)Emily is the symbol of south traditional civilization and Puritan culture（清教文化）.Homer is the symbol of the capitalist class.Chronological disorder (时序倒错法)text order :Death of 74-year- Emily-----She refused to pay smell from her house .-----Her exceptional perform after her father”s death .----She fell in love with Homer and then Homerdisappeared .-----She bought arsenic(砒霜).----Death of74-year- Emily.The exact order :Her exceptional perform after her father”s death .-----She refused to pay taxes. ----She fell in love with Homer and then Homer disappeared . -----She bought arsenic(砒霜). ----The smell from her house . ---- Death of 74-year-old Emily.The beginning is in harmony with the end . This disorder makes the plot complicated and confusing(扑朔迷离) , significantly highlight the love of Emil y, intensively criticize the essence of south traditional civilization based on slavery and Puritan culture.Unique detailsThe most important clue of the mouder is the hair of Emily. “The hair of Emily”appear many times in the text as follows : a)After her father,s death , “her hair was cut short, makingher look like a girl, with a resemblance to those angels in colored church windows.”b)After Homer,s leaving 6 monthes, “she had grown fat and herhair was turning gray. During the next few years it grewgrayer and grayer until it attained an even pepper-and-salt iron-gray. Up to the day of her death at seventy-four it was still that vigorous iron-gray, like the hair of an active man.”c)After her death“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. ”d)The last sentence about the death of Homer“we saw a longstrand of iron-gray hair(near the body)”The changing of her hair little by little corresponding to the declination of the noble and the civilization of old society.Unique narrative perspective(叙述视角)Usually we use first person “I or me” as a narrator in a novel, while the author employed a smart narrative perspective--- First Person Plural(第一人称复数) “we or us ” . “I” represent a single one ,while “we” represent large amounts of people forming sharp contrast with maverick(特立独行) Emily ,signifying the tragedy of Emily. First Person Plural(第一人称复数) which is more believable makes the ideasmore objective while first person gives more subjective opinions.。