超级qq有什么用-一个人的心情

A brief analysis of characters of

A Rose for Emily

Abstract:

“A

Rose

for

Emily

,

by

William

Faulkner,

begins

and

ends

with

the

death

of

Miss

Emily

Grierson,

the

main

character

of

the

story.

William

Faulkner

divided

the

story

five

sections, the first and last section having to do with the present, and the now of the narration, with

the three middle sections detailing the past

was, and to analysis her characters. In this paper, the author did not regard Emily as a sick and

twist woman as many other people, and aims to help the readers understand this story better in

another point of view.

Key words:

character; symbolism; tragedy;

《献给艾米丽的玫瑰花》人物简要分析

摘要

：

《献 给艾米丽的玫瑰花》是著名作家威廉

·

福克纳短篇小说的代表作 。作者讲文章分

为五个部分，

首尾两章描写现在，

中间三章描写过去，

并以主人公艾米丽小姐的去世情节描

写首尾呼应，

结构新颖。

本文着重对文章主人公艾米丽究竟 是怎么样一个人，

她的性格究竟

如何进行探讨。

在这篇文章中，

作者一反前人认为认为艾米丽是一个病态，

扭曲的人的观点，

旨在希望能从新的观点帮助读者更好地理解这篇文章

关键词：人物性格；象征主义；悲剧

Introduction

“A

Rose

for

Emily

”

was

a

horrible

and

tragic

Gothic

fiction

by

William

Faulkner, a famous American writer. It was a story about the life of Miss Emily, who

was the last aristocrat in the southern America. Emily’s father did not allowed his only

daughter to meet anybody who admired her, and sealed her up in their own tower, and

regarded as “

a tradition, a duty, and a care; a sort of hereditary obligation upon the

town”.

[1]

When

she

finally

met

Homer

Barron,

“a

Yankee--a

big,

dark,

ready

man,

with

a

big

voice

and

eyes

lighter

than

his

face”,

[2]

everybody

said

they

would

get

married. Then, Mr. Homer Barron disappeared. Poor Emily went to visit the druggist

for some arsenic, and townspeople thought her might commit suicide, but she did not.

Forty years later, Miss Emily died, townspeople went to her funeral to mourn her, no

matter

men

or

women,

o

ld

or

young,

to

grieve

the

“fallen

monument”

[3]

.

To

their

surprise,

when

their

entered

her

room

that

did

not

opened

for

forty

years

by

others

expect Miss Emily herself ,their were astonished at “The man himself lay in the bed. ”

“rotted beneath what was le

ft 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.”

[4]

That was Mr. Homer Barron, who was disappeared

for forty years. Absolutely, Miss Emily killed him.

1

The background of this story

William Faulkner was

an important

writer in

the modern literature period time

not only in America but also in the whole literary

world. He was the most prominent

writer in

southern America, and famous

for his

Yoknapatawpha country. Faulkner’s

attitude

towards

the

southern

“aristocratic”

families

that

he

wrote

about

was

ambiguous. Alongside his censure of their injustice to the African America, there was

some indication of pity or sympathy. His famous sh

ort stories “

A Rose for Emily

”, was

a good index to the mixed feeling that his works reveal.

[5]

This story happened after

the American Civil War, the southern America was defeated by the northern, and had

to

end

the

slavery

and

the

industrialization

progress

which

brought

by

the

northern

was

in

prosperity.

In

this

story,

we

can

see

the

Emily

and

the

townspeople,

who

represented the southern Americans after the Civil War. They were so afraid of losing

their wealth, position, and stepping down the stage of history of their own accord. In

the

town

where

Emily

lived,

as

the

last

aristocrat,

her

was

well

respected

by

the

townspeople, and she was regarded as the symbol of the old traditions and the past

glory. When she still alive, people might has the illusion of going back to their past

lives, once she died, their realized that their past had already gone. The new power

came from north destroyed their dreams, it was the world for the bourgeois.

The

heroines

Miss

Emily

Grierson,

a

southern

“aristocrat”,

who

hersel

f

was

a

tragedy because of her reluctance of leaving the stage of the history that her should

leave. Of course, as the last aristocrat of her family, Emily would not understand this.

Faulkner expresses the content of Miss Emily's character through physical description,

through her actions, words, and feelings, through the narrator's direct comments about

her, and through the actions, words, and feelings of other characters. In this story, we

can see the writer’s technique of metaphor and his circle narrativ

e style, and the writer

maybe

wants

to

tell

us

something

more

under

the

passage,

every

time

we

read

this

story, we could find something new. The secret was that Faulkner used the technique

of

metaphor.

Metaphor,

as

an

artistic

technique

of

expression,

usually

makes

the

literature

arts

richer

in

structure

and

deeper

in

significance.

By

using

metaphor,

“

A

Rose

for

Emily”

skillfully

reflected

the

southern

America

on

the

wane

through

the

expression

of

character’s

tragedies

and

endows

the

heroine’s

destiny

with

strong

emotion and insightful social meaning,

[6]

it made this story much attractive.

2

Emily

—

the sacrifice of society

2.1

Emily’s miserable life

Emily was the main character in this story, and all her life can be described as

miserable.

The

story

started

off

with

Ms.

Emily's

funeral,

which

impressed

us

the

feeling of sorrow. It states that

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.

[7]

As we can see, Ms. Emily was sort of a mystery to citizens of the

town.

Faulkner continuously used symbolism in the story. When the deputation came

to her house for her taxes, Faulkner described how the house and Ms. Emily looks,

“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

[8]

this statement

explains the Emily’s

family was a nobl

e one, she was an aristocrat, however, it has

past, they situation now was not so good, and the house gave off a depressing mood

for us.

[9]

When

Ms.

Emily

was young,

her

deceased

father

used

to

force

away

all

the

young men that were in love with her. The summer after her father death, she fell in

love

with

a

Yankee

by

the

name

of

Homer

Barron.

Everyone

in

the

town

was

whispering about their relationship and wondering if they were married. After a while,

they did not see Homer Barron any more, and some times later, Emily too.

After

they

buried

her,

they

came

to

the

room

that

wasn't

opened.

When

they

opened the room they were greeted by great amounts of dust. They also explain that

the

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.

[10]

They also saw a man's collar, tie, suit,

shoes,

and

discarded

socks.

shockingly,

lying

right

there

in

the

bed

was

the

man. 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. 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.

[11]

It was Emily, who afraid that Homer Barron leaves her, and poisoned him. Many

readers regarded Emily

as a sick

and twist person, she would prefer to

destroy

one

thing that she could not get rather than let it away. However, but I have to say, her was

a lonely person and strong lady in some degree.

2.2.1 A lonely rose blooming in the tower

Miss Emily Grierson was the socialite of her town, but she was the loneliest one

in the town. When her was young, her activities were strictly controlled by his father,

she had no chance to see the people outside, and she had to behave well because of

her

status,

and

there

was

a

certain

reputation

she

has

to

withhold.

She

not

only

represents her family name but in a sense the people of her town. During the time in

which

her

father

was

alive

Emily

was

seen

as

a

figure

to

be

admired

but

never

touched. Emily was revered as a goddess in the townspeople's eyes.

When

her

father

passed

away,

she

cut

off

her

hair

as

a

sign

of

breaking

away

from her father's control. For the first time in her life she felt free even though she

was already thirty

years old.

However, it was

a

devastating loss for Emily, because