Analysis of A Rose for Emily

William faulkner believes that the past is a treasure house of the great image of human efforts and integrity, but it is also a source of evil. He realized the romance of the past, and realized that surrendering to the romance of the past was a form of death (Warren, 269). In A Rose for Emily, Faulkner compares the past with the present. Emily herself, Colonel Sa dorris, the old black servant and the Aldman board of directors who accepted the colonel's attitude towards Emily and canceled her tax payment all represented the past.

Now it is mainly expressed by the words of the unknown narrator. The new City Councillor Committee, Homer Barron (the representative of Yankee's attitude towards the Grierson family, and therefore towards the whole South), and the so-called "the next generation with more modern ideas" all represent the current period (Norton anthology, 2044). Miss Emily is called "the fallen monument" in the story (Norton anthology, 2044). She is a "monument" of southern gentlemanliness and an ideal of past values, but she fell down because she showed that she was easy to die (and rot). The description of her house "promotes its stubborn and coquettish decay to cotton trucks and gasoline pumps-an eyesore" shows the juxtaposition of the past and the present, which is a symbolic presentation of Emily herself (Norton anthology, 2044).

The house smells dusty and abandoned, with a closed and damp smell. The description of Emily in the following paragraph reveals her similarities with this house. "She looks bloated, like a corpse immersed in still water for a long time, and she is pale" (Norton anthology, 2045). But she doesn't always have this appearance. In the photos of young Emily and her father, she is very weak and obviously eager to participate in the life of that era. After her father's death, she looked like a girl, "vaguely similar to the angel in the colorful church window-a little tragic and quiet" (Norton anthology, 2046). This shows that she has begun to enter the underworld.

By the time the representative of the new and progressive city councilor Committee visited her about her tax arrears, she had completely returned to her old world. She claimed that she had no tax in Jefferson, which was based on her oral agreement with Colonel Shah dorris, who had been dead for ten years. Just as Emily refused to admit her father's death, she now refuses to admit the death of Colonel Shah dorris. He has made a promise, and according to the traditional view, his promise is not dead. This is the confrontation between the past and the present-the past and its social etiquette, the present and everything recorded in the "book".

We can also see this difference from the attitude of Judge Stevens, who is over 80 years old, and a young man (a member of the younger generation) came to the judge about the smell of Emily's house. It is easy for the young man to point out the hygiene regulations in the book. But for the judge who deals with this situation, things are not so simple. "Damn it, sir ... would you accuse a lady of smelling to her face?" (Norton anthology, 2045). If Homer successfully seduces Emily and abandons her, Emily will become vulnerable to the pity of the town and become a human being.

However, Emily's world has become the past. When she was threatened by abandonment and humiliation, she not only took refuge in that world, but also took Homer away in the only possible way-death. Miss Emily's position on the specific time issue was hinted at in the scene where veterans appeared at her funeral. Characters have two views on time. The first perspective (the present world) regards time as a kind of "mechanical progress", in which the past is a "decreasing road" (Norton anthology, 2049). The second view (the world of tradition and the past) holds that the past is "a vast grassland, which no winter can completely touch, and the narrow bottleneck in the last decade separates it from the present" (Norton anthology, 2049). The first perspective is Homer and contemporary people. The second is an old member of the city councilor Committee and a freemason soldier. Emily also holds a second view, except that there is no bottleneck for her to separate her from the grassland in the past.

Emily's room above the stairs is the eternal grass. In this novel, Emily alive and Homer dead are always together, as if death can't separate them. In the simplest sense, this story says that death conquers everything. But what is death? On one level, death is the past, the tradition and the opposite of the present (Hoffman, 265). Against the background of this story, this is the past of the South. Looking back, the survivors of the civil war denied changing customs and the passage of time.

Homer Barron, a Yankee, lives in the present, always ready to be happy with it, obviously unwilling to consider the possibility of being defeated by tradition (the Grierson family) or time itself (death). In a sense, Emily conquered time, but it was only short-lived, and it was by returning to her past "rose" world. In this world, death is denied and proved to exist at the same time. This story implies that such a retreat is hopeless, because everyone, even Emily, will eventually face death and the invasion of his or her world by the noisy and curious residents in today's world. "When Miss Emily died, the whole town went to her funeral ... Most of the women were curious to see the inside of her house, and no one except an old footman ... had seen it for at least ten years" (Norton anthology, 2044).

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Are you online? Roses for Emily. William faulkner? Prediction and establishment of language use

To the climax of the story. His words are descriptive, and

The theme passes through Miss Emily Grierson's thread, symbolizing her own influence.

Time and the essence of old and new things. Properly speaking, the story begins with death,

Flashback to the near distant past and lead to the death of a woman.

She is the embodiment of the past tradition. Faulkner carefully created a multi-level

Masterpiece, he uses language, characterization and chronology to promote it, and calmly comments on the nature of time, change and opportunity.

The story happened after the Civil War. Enter 1900? S in a small town.

Jefferson, Mississippi? A town very similar to the town where william faulkner once lived.

He spent most of his life. This is a story of the conflict between the old and the new South, the past and the future.

A gift? Emily and things around her firmly represent the dying old man.

The southern tradition and the present new south are mainly adopted. . .

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But to take the responsibility of protecting roses by yourself and express it in words? For rats? К (42 years old), in Bao.

Arsenic She strongly denied that she owed any tax and dismissed it immediately.

City councilman. We are now

Go back to Emily's time. Her father died, and she felt alone in taking care of her garden.

Her servant/gardener. An aging rose

It began to stink, but people who knew what it looked like still thought it was beautiful.

In its original form, I don't want to give up the memory of roses. We have a description of the smell of the house.

Dust and waste, and has a closed, moist smell. This is considered unspeakable, so no one.

Talk about it (Bernardo 2003). Emily became fat and gray, hiding in her garden. He doesn't think thorns

Taxes should disturb such roses. This eventually led to the emergence of a thorn cage, killing the fragile.

Flowers.

She refused to admit anyone who didn't put her in the highest position.

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Faulkner compared Emily to a rose surrounded by thorns.

We must strive to maintain elegance and beauty in a constantly changing environment. She and Homer drove around in a flashy car so that all the thorns could see. This? Minority idol? ё is Faulkner's last living portrait of Miss Emily.

Before her death (knickerbocker 2003). Protect the lost roses

The delicate flower is picked to ensure its death.

Emily began to fade after Homer stopped appearing in public.