A_Rose_for_Emily__献给爱米丽的玫瑰_演讲.pptVIP

“A Rose for Emily”;Outline;A brief review on the plot;Though Emily does not commit suicide, the townspeople of Jefferson continue to gossip about her and her eccentricities, citing her familys history of mental illness. She is heard from less and less, and rarely ever leaves her home. The townspeople even don’t know that ,until her death，in her upstairs room she hides the corpse of Homer Barron, which explains the horrid stench that emits from Miss Emilys house. ;“A Rose for Emily” reveals the influence that Southern Gothic had on Faulkner’s writing: this particular story has a moody and forbidding atmosphere; a crumbling old mansion; and decay, putrefaction腐化, and grotesquerie怪诞. 244/P5/L3 她的身架矮小，也许正因为这个缘故，在别的女人身上显得不过是丰满，而她却给人以肥大的感觉。她看上去像长久泡在死水中的一具死尸，肿胀发白。 ;The suspenseful chronological order ;Chronology in “A Rose for Emily”;Unique narrative point of view---we;249/p5 He returns to “we” in the passages that follow, which gives us an important clue about the narrator’s identity. We---They---We This is a significant shift. Until now, the narrator has willingly grouped himself with the rest of the townspeople, accepting the community’s actions, thoughts, and speculations as his own. Here, however, the narrator distances himself from the action, as though the breaking down of the door is something he can’t bring himself to endorse. Whoever he was, the narrator cared for Emily, despite her eccentricities and horrible, desperate act. ;Symbolism;249/the end of the story 248/p4 The narrator foreshadows the discovery of the long strand of hair on the pillow when he describes the physical transformation that Emily undergoes as she ages. The strand of hair is a reminder of love lost and the often perverse（邪恶的） things people do in their pursuit of happiness. The strand of hair also reveals the inner life of a woman who, despite her eccentricities, was committed to living life on her own terms and not submitting her behavior, to the approval of others. The strand of