Miss Emily Grierson died and the whole town went to see her off. People out of admiration, because a monument fell; On the other hand, most women want to see the interior of her house out of curiosity. Except for an old servant who is both a gardener and a cook, no one has been in to see the house for at least ten years.
This used to be a square wooden house painted white. It is located in one of the most elegant streets of the year, decorated with a swirl pattern with a strong sense of lightness, with a circular roof, minarets and balconies. But things like garages and cotton gin violate the solemn name of this area and are smeared everywhere.
Only Miss Emily's house is lonely, surrounded by cotton trucks and gasoline pumps. Although the house is dilapidated, it is still stubborn and pretentious, which is really ugly. Now Miss Emily has joined these representatives with solemn names. They slept in a cemetery surrounded by cedars, and the cemetery was full of rows of graves of unknown soldiers killed in the battle of Jefferson during the Civil War.
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A Rose for Emily was published in the April issue of Tribune magazine, 1930. In the same year, Nobel Prize in Literature laureate sinclair lewis mentioned Faulkner in his speech, saying that he "liberated the South from the tears of sentimental women". The article describes the fate of the Grierson family in Jefferson Town, a southern town after the American Civil War.
In this work, we can see the decline history of the aristocratic class in the southern United States described by the author. The work is full of absurd and strange atmosphere, which makes people seem to have entered a maze of terror and doubt. As the author reveals the unpredictable protagonist's actions and inner world, he gradually gets some thinking clues. The purpose of Faulkner's novels is to recall the historical model of the southern aristocrats yesterday, and at the same time reveal the predicament and crisis faced by this historical glory.
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Baidu Encyclopedia-A Rose for Emily
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China National Digital Library —— A Rose for Emily