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A Rose for Emily By William Faulkner About the author William Faulkner William Faulkner(1897-1962)was born in New Albany,Mississippi in Oxford before and after his service in the literary career began in New Orleans where he met Sherwood Anderson,who helped him get his first novel Soldier’s Pay publish in 1926.The work which won Faulkner a Nobel Prize in 1950 is often a depiction of life in his fictional Yoknapatawpha County,an imaginative reconstruction of the area adjacent to Oxford. 《夜长梦多》（The Big Sleep，1946）和海明威的《犹有似无》（To Have and Have Not）改编电影剧本，导演都是霍华德·霍克斯（Howard Hawks） His Main Writings His major novels: The Sound and the Fury(1929) As I Lay Dying(1930) The Hamelt(1940) His books of short stories: These Thirteen(1931) Go down ,Moses(1942) About the Text A Rose for Emily” is one of Faulkner’s most widely used in the American classroom,We Chinese students may find it diffcult to understand and appreciate.Some of us may think it is a bizarre story about an old eccentric lady in an American Southern town.Yet,the theme of the story is universal,transcending the boundaries of time and space.Like many other works of great literature,this story tells about love,death,honor,pride,change and loss. Emily,the protagonist, has been twisted in personality by forces beyond her control. Dominated by her aristocratic father, she has been prevented from marrying and after his death,she is left alone and penniless. She kills her lover Homer Barron in order to keep him with her. She does not accept change of the time and isolates herself from the community. She is insane and her actions grotesque, but she is a victim, a tragic woman who invites sympathy. One of the themes of this story is the relation of the individual and his actions to the past, present and future. Apart from the exploration of psychological reality, the displaced chronology in narration is also characteristic of Faulkner’s style. 修辞手法 Para 2Personification 拟人 But garages and cotton gins had encroached