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WilliamFaulkner,1897-1962,aliterarygeniuswhocapturedthestrugglesofthehumanheart,AndwhowontheNobelPrizeforLiteraturein1950,FaulknerwasborninAlbany,Mississippi,andraisedinnearbyOxford.,Oxford,LafayetteCounty,MississippiJefferson,YoknapatawphaCounty,MississippiaparableorlegendofalltheDeepSouth,TheDeepSouth,orTheLowerSouth,orTheCottonStates,WilliamFaulknersmajorworks,NovelsTheSoundandtheFury（1929）AsILayDying（1930）LightinAugust（1930）Absalom,Absalom（1936）Shortfiction（shortstories）“ARoseforEmily”（1930）“DrySeptember”（1931）“ThatEveningSun”（1931）“BarnBurning”（1938）,WhichWilliamFaulkner?

Regionalist:

thepostagestampofmylittlenativesoil（我那片像邮票一样大小的故乡）.Traditionalist:

conventionalthemes-themesofmorality,oftherelationshipsbetweenindividuals&community,ancientmyths&moderndecay,traditionalvalue&historicalchange,oftheconflictbetweenSouthandNorth,andoftherelationshipbetweenpastandpresent,ormostessentiallyasFaulknersaidinhisNobelPrizeacceptancespeech,of“thehumanheartinconflictwithitself”Modernist:

experimentalistinart:

longandpuzzlingsentences,flashbacks,multiplepointsofview,andastream-of-consciousnessstyle,WilliamFaulknersSouth,TheSouthernaristocratdeclineoftheCompson,Sartoris,Benbow,McCaslinfamiliesTheilliteratepoorwhiteriseoftheunscrupulous（无耻）SnopesfamilyTheNegroTheIndians,FaulknersFeelingTowardAristocrats,Mixedsympatheticandmounfulfortheirdeclineangryabouttheirunreasonablearrogance*Thesinofpridedoomstheambitiousfamilieswhilelowlyblacksandpoorwhitesendure.,ARoseforEmily,1930,Structure,BeginningthePresent1930（Emilydiesat74）（I）MiddlethePast:

1893Emilysfatherdies.（Emilyisjustpast30）（II）1894Taxesremitted（I）1895-96poison（III）1895-96H.B.disappears;thesmelldevelops（III）1896-1903china-paintinglessons（Emilyat40）（II,IV）1925-26thenewgeneration/newboardofAldermencallsuponheraboutthetaxes（30yearsafterthesmell1925;8-10yearsafterlessons1911-1913）（Emilyatabout69-70）（I,IV）EndingthePresent1930（V）,ThemeoftheStory,Whatisthemajorconflictofthestory?

TheconflictbetweenthepastandthepresentTheconflictwithinEmilyWhatisthemajorthemeofthestory?

Emilyiscaughtinadilemma.Sheisnotpreparedforthehistoricalchangeandisleftbehindbythechange.,TheDilemmaofEmily,Emilylivesinthepastalthoughshefaces,thepresent.ThepresentthatEmilycannotface:

familydeclinenewgenerationsrequestfortaxneedtoearnherlivingandtopaybillsstandingnochanceofmarriage,havingaloveaffairwithaNortherner,HomerBarren,whoisonlyseekingpleasurewithEmilyandnotseriousabouttheirrelation,TheDilemmaofEmily,ThepastEmilyclingsto:

familyshighpositionandhonorfatherspaternalprotectionhersocialrespectability,Weird,GruesomeandTerrifyingEmily,refusestoacceptfathersdeath（pp.63,61,66）insistsonrepeatingColonelSartoriswhenaskedtopaytaxes（p.61）refusestotellthedruggistwhyshebuysthepoison（p.64）murdersHomerBarrenandsleepswithhisdeadbody（p.67）enclosesherselftohergloomy,dustyanddecayinghouse,likealivingdeath,TheHumanStruggle,WilliamFaulkneroncedescribed“ARoseforEmily”as“amanifestationofmansinjusticetoman,ofthepoortragichumanbeingstrugglingwithitsownheart,withothers,withitsenvironment,forthesimplethingswhichallhumanbeingswant.”,Whoisthenarrator?

Thetownspeopleingeneral,youngandold,manandwomanOneorsomeoftheancientsuitorswhofeel（s）sympathetictoher,notoneofthealdermenaskingfortaxesfromher（“they”onp.60）,noroneofthepeoplewhobrokeopentheroomupstairs（“they”onp.66）,TheTownsFeelingtowardEmily,offendedwhenrejectedbyhisfatheras,suitorsofEmily,worriedaboutthedisgraceEmilywould,bringtothetownifsheweredesertedbyH.B.,tolerates,acceptsevenrespectsEmilyin,spiteofherweirdbehaviorAlive,MissEmilyhadbeenatradition,aduty,andacare;asortofhereditaryobligationuponthetown（para3,p.60）.“lighthouse-keeper”“strainedflag”（p.64）,Flashbacks,ThetownsrespectforthepastandEmilyThepastmattersmoretoEmilythanthepresent.Thepastremainsapermanentmemoryforthesouthtocherishandpreserve.-allthepastisnotadiminishingroadbut,instead,ahugemeadowwhichnowintereverquitetouches,dividedfromthemnowbythenarrowbottle-neckofthemostrecentdecadeofyears（para2,PartV,p.66）.,ThePast,“过去的岁月不是一条越来越窄的路，而是一片广袤的连冬天也对它无所影响的大草地，只是近十年来才像窄小的瓶口一样，把他们同过去隔断了。

”,MeaningoftheTitle,Theroseisasymboloflove,sympathyandrespect.ThetributepaidbythetowntoEmilywhodeservessomekindofrespect.TheflowerpresentedbytheanonymousancientsuitorswholiveonandclingtotheirloveforEmily,cherishingthememoryofherbothasarespectableindividualandanhonorabletradition.,Faulknersexplanationofthetitle,“Thetitlewasanallegoricaltitle;themeaningwas,herewasawomanwhohadhadatragedy,anirrevocabletragedyandnothingcouldbedoneaboutit,andIpitiedherandthiswasasalutetoawomanyouwouldhandarose.”,AssignmentsforYoungGoodmanBrown,ReadNathanielHawthornesshortstory“YoungGoodmanBrown”closely.Thinkaboutthediscussionquestionsafterthetext,esp.Whatisthesignificanceofthesetting?

WhatdramaticchangehappenstoGoodmanBrown?

Whythechange?

Whatisthethemeofthestory?

Whataresomeofthemajorsymbols?