A rose for Emily献给艾米丽的玫瑰

A rose for Emily---Characters

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Main characters Emily Grierson: a mysterious figure who chanfes from a vibrant and hopeful young girl into a clositered and secretive old woman. Homer Barron: a foreman from the north,he is a large man with a dark complexion, a booming voice and light colorful eyes.

Mr.Grierson: Emily's father, he is a controlling, looming(隐约的)presence even in death and the community clearly see his lasting influence over Emily. Judge Stevens: a mayor of Jefferson Colonel Sartoris: the former mayor of Jefferson, he absolves Emily of tax burden after the death of her father.

Under Her Father’s control

Living with the Died Homer

Father Died

Died

Looked BloatedLive With Father As A Little Girl

Before 30Poisoned Homer after Discarded

IN LOVE With Homer

EmilyThe sacrifice of the society and puritanism The struggling spirit The symbol of south ,old and tradition.

A lonely rose 1.Emily was controlled by her father 2.Emily was revered as a godness in the town people's eyes

An eccentric rose from apperance::“They rose when she entered--a small, fat woman in black, with a thin gold chain descending to her waist and vanishing into her belt, leaning on an ebony cane with a tarnished gold head. Her skeleton was small and spare; perhaps that was why what would have been merely plumpness in another was obesity in her. She looked bloated, like a body long submerged in motionless water, and of that pallid hue. Her eyes, lost in the fatty ridges of her face, looked like two small pieces of coal pressed into a lump of dough as they moved from one face to another while the visitors stated their errand.

from talking words: “The druggist looked down at her. She looked back at him, erect, her face like a strained flag. "Why, of course," the druggist said. "If that's what you want. But the law requires you to tell what you are going to use it for.”

from behaviors:“Then we noticed that in the second pillow was the indentation of a head. One of us lifted something from it, and leaning forward, that faint and invisible dust dry and acrid in the nostrils, we saw a long strand of iron-gray hair. ”

A struggling rose 1.Emily represented the old style of south family,while she loved a nortnern foreman,which means her struggle for the tradition of the south. 2.Emily tried to persuade Homer to stay with her but she failed so she killed him and continue her love until her death,which shows she is not a doll controlled by the man.

Mr.Griersona feudal declining noble

influenced by the tradition and puritanism

restrict the behaviors of women and controll everything of Emily

the longing for love and freedom become the only way for Emily

Homer Barrona foreman from north represent the newly culture of north and he is the production of the industrial society longing for freedom and lack of responciblities he don't want to marry Emily but just flatte

r with her

The reasons for the twisty family element--from Emily's father social elements--the tarditional value of south and the puritanism personal element--persecuted by the traditional south culture but never can break the restriction of it, though Emily had struggle for it.