Analysis of 东方不亮西方亮是什么生肖环球网校"A Ro for Emily"
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Like so many American writers, Faulkner found himlf 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 em 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 Ro for Emily” is Faulkner’s first short story published in 1930. Set in the town of Jefferson in Yoknopatawpha, the story focus on Emily Grierson, an eccentric spinster who refus 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 tho in Faulkner’s Yoknapatwapha stories who are the symbols of the Old South but the prisoners of the past. In this story, Faulkner makes best u of the Gothic devices in narration, and, the deformed personality and abnorfive minutes
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宁波效实中学mality Emily demonstrates in her relationship with her sweetheart is dramatized in such a way that we feel shocked and thrilled as we read along.
"A Ro for Emily" recounts the story of an eccentric spinster, Emily Grierson. An unnamed narrator details the strange circumstances of Emily’s life and her odd relationships with her father, who controlled and manipulated her, and her lover, the Yankee road worker Homer Barron. When Homer Barron threatens to leave her, she is en buying arnic, which the townspeople believe she will commit suicide with. After this, Homer Barron is not heard from again, and is assumed to have returned north. Though she does not commit suicide, the townspeople of Jefferson continue to gossip about her and her eccentricities, citing her family's history of mental illness. She is heard from less and less, and rarely ever leaves her home. Unbeknownst to the townspeople until her death, in her upstairs room she hides all day with the corp of Homer Barron, which explains the horrid stench that emits from Miss Emily's hou.
The story’s complexities have inspired critics while casual readers found the work one of
Faulkner’s most accessible (and shortest) works. The popularity of the story was due in no small part to its gruesome ending.
The story explores many themes, including the society of the South at that time, the role of women in the South, and extreme psychosis.
In the story, the townspeople's points of views on Emily actually reflect the society's value at that moment to some extent. Although the townspeople don't have direct contact with Emily, their views on her and her family greatly affect her life. Their prais and admiration influence her father to keep her sheltered longer than she actually needs to be. Her father controls her thoughts and lifestyle. Emily feels that she is relead when her father is dead. She dives into love with Homer and neglects people's judgments on her. When she realizes that Homer intends to leave her again, she makes sure that he would always be with her, whether he is alive or not. In his death Emily finds eternal love which is something no one could ever take away from her.
William Faulkner regarded the past as a repository of great images of human effort and in
tegrity, but also as the source of a dynamic evil. He was aware of the romantic pull of the past and realized that submission to this romance of the past was a form of death (Warren, 269). In "A Ro for Emily", Faulkner contrasted the past with the prent era. The past was reprented in Emily herlf, in Colonel Sartoris, in the old Negro rvant, and in the Board of Alderman who accepted the Colonel's attitude toward Emily and rescinded her taxes.
recruitedThe prent was expresd chiefly through the words of the unnamed narrator. The new Board of Aldermen, Homer Barron (the reprentative of Yankee attitudes toward the Griersons and thus toward the entire South), and in what is called "the next generation with its more modern ideas" all reprented the prent time period (Norton Anthology, 2044). Miss Emily was referred to as a "fallen monument" in the story (Norton Anthology, 2044). She was a "monument" of Southern gentility, an ideal of past values but fallen becau she had shown herlf susceptible to death (and decay). The description of her hou "lifting its stubborn and coquettish decay above the cotton wagons and the gasoline pumps--an eyesore among eyesores" reprented a juxtaposition of the past an
d prent and was an emblematic prentation of Emily herlf.
. The Symbol of Miss Emily.
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In this short story, Miss Emily is a static character who refud to believe that the times were changing and refud to change into the new society. As a Mississippi Southern Belle, she was born and raid in a wonderful state. She is considered a “monument” of southern manners and an ideal of past values. Her southern heritage and points of view are reprented through her actions. Her stubbornness and unrelenting attitude are very strong characteristics of the southern heritage, so Emily symbolizes the old southern tradition; her death symbolizes the collap of the old southern tradition
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Ⅱ. The Symbol of the Hou.
In this short story, Faulkner applies symbolism to compare the Grierson hou with Emily’s physical deterioration, her shift in social standing, and her unwillingness to accept changing. When compared chronologically, it is ud to symbolize Emily’s physical attribu
abortedtes. And Faulkner also ts the hou as a symbol for Emily’s change in social status. When Miss Emily died, her and her hou both become symbols of their dying generation.
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