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a rose for emily.英文原版
A Rose for Emily
A Rose for Emily
AARRoosseeffoorrEEmmiillyy
By William Faulkner
II
II
WHEN Miss Emily Grierson died, our whole town went to her funeral: the men
through a sort of respectful affection for a fallen monument, the women mostly out of
curiosity to see the inside of her house, which no one save an old man-servant--a
combined gardener and cook--had seen in at least ten years.
It was a big, squarish frame house that had once been white, decorated with
cupolas and spires and scrolled balconies in the heavily lightsome style of the
seventies, set on what had once been our most select street. But garages and cotton
gins had encroached and obliterated even the august names of that neighborhood; only
Miss Emilys house was left, lifting its stubborn and coquettish decay above the cotton
wagons and the gasoline pumps-an eyesore among eyesores. And now Miss Emily had
gone to join the representatives of those august names where they lay in the cedar-
bemused cemetery among the ranked and anonymous graves of Union and Confederate
soldiers who fell at the battle of Jefferson.
Alive, Miss Emily had been a tradition, a duty, and a care; a sort of hereditary
obligation upon the town, dating from that day in 1894 when Colonel Sartoris, the
mayor--he who fathered the edict that no Negro woman should appear on the streets
without an apron-remitted her taxes, the dispensation dating from the death of her
father on into perpetuity. Not that Miss Emily would have accepted charity. Colonel
Sartoris invented an involved tale to the effect that Miss Emilys father had loaned
money to the town, which the town, as a matter of business, preferred this way of
repaying. Only a man of Colonel Sartoris generation and thought could have invented
it, and
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