An analysis on"A Rose for Emily"

中国校外教育自利|教研探索6An analysis on'A Rose for Emily"◆王小薇(安徽工业大学外国语学院)Abstrat;This paper analysises Fulkner' s novel "A Rome for Emily". It emphasises the vewpoint, the cosruction and the symbolice metaphor.Key words:naration structure symbolic metaphorThe spriual deriration which chancterizes modem life stems dred tblish the connetion wih the outer word; ather ll, it8 s tumning point ol herfrom the loes of love and want of emotional response seems to be one important life. When she fell into love with the snobbish bourgois Homner, her individualiamesage of Wlliam Faulkner' stories. In "A Rose for Emily" he uses unique ties unveil slowly. The failure o the love with Homer indicatces that: Homer 比narrative ricewpoint, structure - building, eymbolism and metaphor to express this present a toally diferent life from Emily自 reting one, it'g one full of din andmesage and fnally helps to extent the nove's asthetic dimension. AI thee stir. Homer didnt accept Emily8s love, all the people didnt alwl this, and Emilyshow Faulkners atention to the combination of form and content in the novel- hersef alo stuggled in the inner self to the extent that when she caried her headcreation, and thus make the novel prodoundly the matic. .high enough, ehe was alo full of conflict. t hints that there is a great gulf be1. The riewpoint of narrationtween them.This novel uses "we" to represent the main charater.3. The symbolie metaphor(1)Emilys story is depicted moderately. To some extent it excludes the 。In the modemistic works, the symbolism is no longer a mean of the style,motional and moral conlict betwen Emily and the townspeople. Thus we can地but rother an important style isel.. The complex imago produces nich Bymbolicealize the autbors feling.meaning.(2)The townspeoples dferent opinion supplement ceach other and fnally(1)The syumbol of the prtospeensures the solidarity of the work. Via this can this noval be told vridly.All the literary works are the hypothetical verbal structure. The characters'(3)The word " we" bluro the boundary betre the readers and the charac- behavior and fate are oly logical and meaningful in an invented wod. After 陆ers. The story is just what the author sees or participates. This aroues the red- rious crucifixions of life and emotion, she lets her soul stay in the past and be-ers' interests.comes 8 puppet. People regard her幽a concepl, respecting her but never inclu-women used to be in a lower social cas. Fauilkner comes from a noble family. beecence of South America.Alough he doesnt cast off the old tradition of despising women, he shows his r(2) The metaphor of the people and the thingspect towarde women. It relcts the contradictory peychology of Faulkner and hisFaulkner constructed many verbal icom. Such narration leads the readers tocontemporaries.put attention to the people and the things; a8 the penetration of the narration, the2. The construction of the plotmotive will be exposed. During the fight against her own fate, she maintained herWe alye "A Rose for Emily" fom the flwrin aspects in order to dis- digpity and idiualiy. This idividuality indicates that; as a member o thecuss the relation between the construction of the plot and the thematic meaning. society, she has a close connection with the society, she is alo an individual in(1)The organic of the whole artidleit; she is fltered by the social convention, however, she always secks the indi-This story is constucted dliberately by the suhor. "Death" is the suble of vidual value. Once the individual cracks with the society, he and the society willthe story which can be divided into five parts. The sse of the taxes, the smell, never in a harmonious stale, but stand in the contradictory positions. The resultthe death of his father, the marriage of Emily and the funeral ,all thee ofer”of the confliet mst be a biter tragic.ua" , the narrator, the viewpoint and the opportunity ;ll these are the tumingRelerences:points of the plot. The conflicts arise from these isue are the hinges of the char-[1]Brooks, Cleanth. Williamn Faulkner. The Yoknapatawpha Country. Newacters'fate The language also gives much contribution to the natural develop-Haven: Princeton Univ. Pes,1963.ment of the plot.[2 ]Hofman, Frederick J. William Faulkner. New York :Twayne , 1961.(2)The multiply of the inverion of the time and the order[3]Kazin, Afred. .“Faulkner in his Fury.”In Modem American Fiction:The plot can be aranged in the onriginal sequence in order to help the read-Esays in Cricism. New York :Oxford Univ. Press, 1963.ers to understand the charactens" real" experience; it can also break the time or[4] Mllgte, Michael. The Achievement of Wlliam Faulkner New York:der and use fashback to make the story atractive. The story tells the story ofRandom House, 1963.Emily. The multiply fashbacks lets us see the new ight of he structure. Mean-[5]chitter, Morgan. Wiliam Faulkner. New York :McCram - Hil,1973.while, we also find that the skip of the time is very natural.This kind of fasbh; Wlliam Faulkner. New York:中国煤化工back produces suspense s0 the wuthor proches her deep soul in order to expoeeher abnormality and her tragedy.7]TYHC N M H Gection of Crical Esaye. E(3)The erlating negationglewood Cile, N.J : Prentice - Hll,1966.The developnent of the story is aloost aa mnathematic process:0+1-1+1.[8]Wlliams, David. Faulkner' s Women:The Myh and the Muse. Montre-Her father's death makes Emily detemnine to change her appearance and ty to eal:McGill - Queen's Univ. Press,1977.06/2010 39