A Rose for Emily评论.doc

William Faulkner is one of the most greatest and famous authors of modern America. He received the Nobel Prize for Literature in 1949. The reason for his awarded was “for his powerful and artistically unique contribution to the modern American novel”. I think we can attribute some part of his success to the use of the stream of consciousness. This kind of skill made his fiction more delicate and complex and he was famous for this skill as same as Marcel Proust of France and James Joyce of Ireland. It reminded me of my own experience of the travel of reading his fiction named Sound and the Fury. That idiot boy, he was one of the narrators in the fiction, made me confused because Faulkner used the stream of consciousness when he wrote that section. It indeed has high value in literature, but I must say that it really hard to read. 　　 　　Another outstanding characteristic of his fiction is almost all of the stories happened in a place named Yoknapatawpha. This place came from Faulkner’s memory of his childhood and it was a symbol or a microcosm of the whole Southern society. The story happened in Yoknapatawpha in Sound and the Fury, so it did in the short but most immaculate story named A Rose for Emily. This story was written in 1930, unlike Sound and the Fury, Faulkner did not use too much literature skill in it like the stream of consciousness. But it has a different kind of beauty and I will analysis what it is make the story beautiful through stylistic way. 　　 　　1. varieties of language use 　　Almost the whole story used the first-person perspective to narrate and sometimes used third-person perspective, for example in the latter half of the first part and the first half part of the second part. So the author regarded himself as a resident of the town, an everyman. In this way we can understand why it comes to the developed of the story, the dialogue between the characters, the language is so normal, just like we are reading some letter from our relatives, no