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英美文学论文 The gothic characteristics in A Rose for Emily --------------------------------------------------------------------- Faulkner lived in the South for a life long, and the field of south fertilized him and shaped his character. Therefore, his habit, thinking way and life attitude closely related with this unfortunate field.(Jay Parinier, 1989:2031) As the representative of the American traditional thinking, the most important and unconscious content had deeply precipitated in the deep of his heart. That is why he showed his love to his hometown in such an unusual way--exposed the faults and gloomy aspects of the South. Maybe gothic characteristic in A Rose for Emily is the best way to express his emotion. The topic is mainly about murder, death, violence and necrophilia, which is the “gothic fiction” First of all, the topic is mainly about murder, death, violence and necrophilia. It “vividly pictures a terrified story of an old virgin. Emily is the last member of the Grierson. She is a slim and gentle lady, but she almost loses her beauty when she appears again in her 30s, She looks bloated, like a body long submerged in motionless water, and of that pallid hue.(para6) She dies in her 74 years old finally. Alive, Miss Emily had been a tradition, a duty, and a care; a sort of hereditary obligation upon the town.( para3) As long as Emily is dead, all the proud and dignity of gentle lady is dead out. Even in order to give her a hand, the premayor Colonel Sartoris only uses an excuse to avoid hurting her. Emily has been separated from the outside for nearly forty years after her fathers death and after the missing of her fiancé俄?. Daily, monthly, yearly we watched the Negro grow grayer and more stooped, going in and out with the market basket.(para33) Sometimes, people could see her through the window, only find her “like the carven torso of an idol in a niche.(para33) It is until the end of her funeral that the people discover the secret which they find Homers s