AnElegyforAmericanSouthernPlanters.docVIP

AnElegyforAmericanSouthernPlanters 　　摘 要：After the American civil war， many writers did what they could to describe the development of social history and social mentality， so there emerged a lot of famous America southern writers. As a delegate of the American south writers， William Faulkner made great contribution to the literature with his strong feeling and his incisive writing style. In the famous short novel “A Rose for Emily”， through the description of the change of main characters family and herself in the changing age， the writer， William Faulkner reflected the theme——all kinds of problems about the confliction in peoples deep heart—— in his works which refer to the American and the whole human society and sang an elegy for the American south planters. 　　关键词：history social reality of the Southern America social innovation individuality emotion integer criticism 　　中图分类号：I106.4 文献标识码：A 文章编号：1003-9082（2013）10-0203-02 　　1 Introduction 　　In the short novel A ROSE FOR EMILY， the writer William Faulkner mainly narrated a horrible tale about an isolated old virgin， Miss Emily. As the last heir of the Griersons in the Jefferson town and regarded as a tradition，a duty ， a care and a sort of hereditary obligation upon the， town ， Miss Emily always carried her head high， in order to make the citizens admire the Griersons dignity and mighty. She never communicated with the outside world. After the old Grierson died ， Miss EmiLy did not allow the other people to burry her father and told the people -who wanted to offer help and condolence that her father was not dead . When the officers of the new government called at her mansion by themselves to ask her to pay taxes， she still refused to pay it， asking them to see Colonel Sartoris who had been dead for almost ten years！ In Miss Emilys life she only loved one person， Homer Barron， a Yankee. She would like to marry him without thinking of her noble station， but Homer Barron deserted her， which made her despaired.