The Conflicts in A Rose for Emily《献给艾米丽的玫瑰》中的种种冲突.docx

The Conflicts in A Rose for Emily《献给艾米丽的玫瑰》中的种种冲突Abstract This passage attempts to, from a delicate way to analyze the conflicts about the life of Miss Emily in the world-famous short story A Rose for Emily by William Faulkner, an American writer. The author first starts from the conflicts in Miss Emily’s life, analyzing the reasons of the conflicts. Furthermore, from literal devices in this passage, William Faulkner explains to the readers how the conflicts are displayed. Based on the above, the author points out that Miss Emily’s character tragedy lies in the obstinate traditional sense of hierarchy in the Old South of America. The conflicts, between the new system in the New South during its foundation and the old system in the Old South, as well as her greatly twisted character, lead to her tragic fate. Through the series of the specific analysis, the readers are able to make full comprehension of the article.Key words: Conflict Refuse Old South New South North摘要本篇文章力图用一种很细致的方法来透析威廉.佛克纳的著名短篇小说《献给艾米丽的玫瑰》中所出现的种种冲突。

作者首先从艾米丽生活中所出现的冲突切入，进而分析存在这些冲突的原因，然后本篇文章又从威廉. 佛克纳所使用的多种文学手段来进一步说明他是如何把这些冲突展现给读者的，由此读者不难发现艾米丽的悲剧植根于美国南方特权阶级顽固的传统观念，这些冲突的发生实质上是南方旧体制，旧观念和北方新体制，新观念的冲突通过一系列紧密的分析读者可以更透彻的理解这篇文章关键词：冲突 拒绝 旧南方 新南方 北方 - 20 -The Conflicts in A Rose for EmilyIntroductionWilliam Faulkner, an outstanding southern writer of the U.S.A., was a regionalist, spending most of his time in a small region—Deep South. He invented a county Yoknapatawpha , the capital is Jefferson ,in his imagination . Most of his stories took place in this imaginary place. “A Rose for Emily” is one of them. Faulkner successfully advanced two modern literary techniques: stream of consciousness and multiple point of view. His frequent themes were history and race---family epic, melon-drama (with exaggerated conflicts and emotion), tragedy and comedy. All of these involve war, race, class, soil, and family violence. He defines his ideals in terms of their opposites. He has few characters that have normal sense, and Miss Emily, the main character of the short story, is a typical one who resembles almost all the aspects of William Faulkner’s writing style mentioned above.Miss Emily Grierson, a typical character described in his world-famous short story “A Rose for Emily”, is the emblem of the Old South and the victim of the Old South’s traditional ideas. Her unusual behavior, proud and aloof character and nearly seclusive lives are always the targets criticized by traditional critics. Miss Emily refused to accept the postbox, the symbol of modernization; and refused to pay taxes, which means that she refused to accept the progress of the society; and refused to accept the passage of time…So Miss Emily’s life are filled with conflicts. And the conflicts lied in the new ideas in the New South and the old ideas in the Old South.Chapter IThere are several conflicts in the story including paying taxes, the smell, the disposal of the dead body of her father, the purchase of poison, her marriage, and the mailbox.On paying taxes, the townspeople want Emily to conform to their standards of living. Emily refuses to succumb to their pressure because of a so-called arrangement made between Colonel Sartoris, who was the mayor at that time, and Emily exempts herself from ever paying taxes. In reality, the arrangement was really to save face or Emily’s reputation because she has become poor. Faulkner is so cautious even in the words he uses to reflect this arrangement of a bygone era: “Only a man of Colonel Sartoris” generation and thought could have invented it, and only a woman could have believed it.” (1) However, the town council of Jefferson’s next generation has changed their values, demands Emily pay as all the rest of them. Faulkner notes that the townspeople sent the Baptist minister–Miss Emily’s people were Episcopal–to call upon her, and they also send threatening letters demanding she pay her taxes. But Miss Emily said, “perhaps he considers himself the sheriff…I have no taxes in Jefferson.” (2) And she repeated one sentence in fury again and again, just as “see Colonel Sartoris. I have no taxes in Jefferson.” Under such circumstances, the city authorities were forced to give up collecting her taxes.On townspeople’s complains about the smell, the townspeople had no courage to ask her to get rid of it. That happened, shortly after her sweetheart deserted her. Four townspeople reduced themselves to the roles of nighttime prowlers, “slunk” around Miss Emilys house and “sprinkled” (3) lime. Creeping away, they see Miss Emily silhouetted in the window, “her upright torso motionless as that of an idol,” (4) From the descriptive words, the readers can see that Miss Emily has been dominating the community. On the disposal of the dead body of his father, when her father died, she became “crazy”. Faulkner wrote。