a rose for emily。献给爱丽丝的玫瑰。最完整的英语ppt。.pptVIP

强兰兰 邵亚奇 孙美娟 Plots The story opens with a brief first-person account of the funeral of?Emily Grierson, an elderly Southern?spinster. It then proceeds in a?nonlinear fashion to the narrators recollections of Emilys archaic and increasingly insane behavior throughout the years. Emily is a member of a family in the?antebellum?Southern aristocracy; after the Civil War, the family has fallen on hard times. She and her father, the last two of the clan, continue to live as if in the past; neither will consent to a marriage for Emily to a man below their perceived status. Her father dies when Emily is about thirty; she refuses to accept that he has been dead for three days, behavior written off by the community as part of her grieving process. After her acceptance of her fathers death, Emily revives somewhat; she becomes friendly with Homer Barron, a Northern laborer who comes to the town as a contractor to pave the sidewalks. The connection surprises the rest of the community: the match would have been far below her earlier standards, and Homer had himself claimed that he was not a marrying man. The town appeals to Emilys distant cousins; they are her closest remaining relatives, but they have been on bad terms with Emily and her father, and had not even been present at her fathers funeral. The cousins arrive at Emilys house, but quickly gain a reputation even worse than that of Emily; the sentiment of the town rallies behind Emily in opposition to the cousins. Indeed, during this time, Emily buys arsenic from a druggists shop without giving her reasons for needing it; neighbors believe that she means to poison herself with it. However, her relationship with Homer appears to solidify, and there is talk of marriage between the two. Homer leaves the area for a time, reputedly to give Emily a chance to get rid of her cousins, and returns three days after the cousins have left; one person reports seeing Homer walk in the house at night,