An Analysis of Emily’s Love in A Rose for Emily.doc

An Analysis of Emily’s Love in A Rose for Emily I. Introduction William Faulkner was considered by many to be the greatest writer of fiction that the United States has yet produced. He was born in New Albany, Mississippi in 1897 and raised in nearby Oxford, is pictured as the prototype of the soft-spoken Southern gentleman, gentle, kind, and courteous and also “cold, a master of withering rebuff”(Vope.81). He was the most famous of all contemporary writers of the American South, who is remarked in “Writers in Crisis” as “not merely represents but was the Deep South as no other American novelist may quite chime to be”. Most of his major works were set in the imaginary Yoknapaowpha County and its main town of Jefferson called “the mythical kingdom”(Geismar.47), which bear marked similarities to Faulkner’s native Oxford. He also depicted the particular psychological stresses associated with the decline of the south from its romantically glorious past. Above all, “Faulkner represents the moral confusion and social decay that followed in images of haunting power and violence”. He received the 1950 Nobel Prize for Literature, William Faulkner’s reputation and influence had spread to every part of the world. Faulkner was noted of the Southerners抋ssociation with the South tradition, not only physical, but spirituaal as well；so he took pains to picture a group of Southerners who were desperately submitted to the old way of life. But as an artist of the twentieth century, he observed the gradual changes of the South: the old veterans were dying off, and the old loyalties were adjusted to conform to new conditions. The loss of the South tradition and the appearance of the North industrialization aroused not only the devastation of the Southern plantation system, but also the macabre disillusionment to the Southern descendants, as the South knew them. Whereas, they saw that world changing into another kind and they were themselves of that new changed world, yet apart from it. F