A_Rose_For_Emily英文读后感.doc

A Rose For Emily Like so many American writers, Faulkner found himself again and again writing short stories, some of which are considered as equally important as his best novels. Good as his short stories are, they seem always at the threshold of being absorbed into the Yoknapatawpha saga — that legendary matrix which is Faulkner’s real achievement. However, for a beginner of Faulkner scholarship, his short stories may well be an easy start. “A Rose for Emily” is Faulkner’s first short story published in 1930. Set in the town of Jefferson in Yoknopatawpha, the story focuses on Emily Grierson, an eccentric spinster who refuses to accept the passage of time, or the inevitable change and loss that accompanies it. Simple as it is in plot, the story is pregnant with meaning. As a descendent of the Southern aristocracy, Emily is typical of those in Faulkner’s Yoknapatwapha stories who are the symbols of the Old South but the prisoners of the past. In this story, Faulkner makes best use of the Gothic devices in narration, and, the deformed personality and abnormality Emily demonstrates in her relationship with her sweetheart is dramatized in such a way that we feel shocked and thrilled as we read along. In this story, Faulkner’s strong condemnation of the values of old tradition emanates from the pathetic life story of the central character, Emily Grierson dominated by her father and restrained by his rigid ideas of social status, she has been prevented from getting married during his lifetime, and therefore after his death she is left alone and penniless. Her dependence on her father continues even after he dies. By delineating Miss Emily’s tragedy, Faulkner offers a strong denunciation of the morals of his own southern culture. Yet in “A Rose for Emily”, we can sense the underlying acclaim of the standard and moral values found in the South which have been destroyed by commerce and machinery. In spite of Emily’s insanity and grotesque actions, Faulkner ch