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The Background
"A Rose for Emily" is a short story by American author William Faulkner first published in the April 30, 1931 issue of Forum. This story takes place in Faulkner's fictional city, Jefferson, Mississippi, in the fictional county of Yoknapatawpha County. It was Faulkner's first short story published in a national magazine.
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Author
William Cuthbert Faulkner （1987---1962）
Brief introduction
• William Faulkner (1897-1962), • America’s most innovative novelists, • Born in New Albany, on 1897.09.25 • He lived most of his life in Oxford.
Faulkner died on July 6, 1962, the same day his great-grandfather, the Old Colonel, had been born on 137 years earlier.
Major Works
The Sound and the Fury (1929), 《喧嚣与骚动》 As I Lay Dying (1930),《我弥留之际》 Light in August (1932), 《八月之光》 Absalom, Absalom! (1936). 《押沙龙，押沙龙》
His Nobel Prize Acceptance speech is today considered one of the finest ever made:
• “The problems of the human heart in conflict with itself…alone can make good writing because only that is worth writing about, worth the agony and the sweat.”
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Brief introduction
• Attempted to enlist as soon as the United States declared war in 1917
• Volunteer in the Canadian Air force
• Student of the University of Mississippi on his return to Oxford after the war
However, Faulkner spent much of his time observing ordinary townspeople as well, and this is why he was able to capture the voice of the common people of Jefferson in the character of the narrator.He won two Pulitzer Prizes, a National Book Award, and the Nobel Prize for Literature.
Faulkner belonged to a once-wealthy family of former plantation owners. Both parents came from wealthy families reduced to genteel (上流社会的) poverty by the Civil War.
William Faulkner's map of Yoknapatawpha County
Character List
Emily Grierson - The object of fascination in the story. An eccentric recluse, Emily is a mysterious figure who changes from a vibrant and hopeful young girl to a cloistered and secretive old woman. Devastated and alone after her father’s death, she is an object of pity for the townspeople. After a life of having potential suitors rejected by her father, she spends time after his death with a newcomer, Homer Barron, although the chances of his marrying her decrease as the years pass. Bloated and pallid in her later years, her hair turns steel gray. She ultimately poisons Homer and seals his corpse into an upstairs room.
His first short story collection, These 13 (1931), includes "A Rose for Emily", "Red Leaves", "That Evening Sun", and "Dry September".
Major Works
Three novels, The Hamlet, The Town and The Mansion, known collectively as the Snopes Trilogy
characters like the Griersons.
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although their wealth was gone.