摘要

威廉•福克纳是美国南方文学的领袖。其中《献给艾米丽的一朵玫瑰》是约克纳帕塔法世系里的一部小说。小说题为《献给艾米丽的一朵玫瑰》，但整部小说只是在结尾提到两次“褪色的玫瑰色窗幔、玫瑰色灯罩”。本文认为艾米丽小姐就是那朵玫瑰，然后从这个角度对小说的南方传统、南方的没落贵族以及艾米丽的爱情进行分析，从而更好的理解小说的主题和作者的创作意图。

关键字：玫瑰;艾米丽;南方传统;南方的没落贵族;爱情

Abstract

William Faulkner was one of the most influential American novelists. His short story A Rose for Emily, was those among his best works，taking place in the imaginary Yoknapatawpha County. Although the title of the short story is A Rose for Emily, rose is only mentioned two times at the end of the story. This thesis aims to have a further analysis of the southern American tradition, the Griersons and Emily’s love from a different perspective “Emily is the rose”. As a result, we have a better understanding of the story and what the writer are trying to convey.

Key words: rose; Emily; southern American tradition; the Griersons; love 

1.    Introduction

William Faulkner (1897-1962) is one of the leading American authors of the 20th century and received the Nobel Prize for literature in 1949 for his powerful and artistically unique contribution to the modern American novel. He was famous for the skill called the stream of consciousness and a regionalist and spent most of his life in a small, particular area of the United States, the Deep South with its bitter history of slavery, writing about the scenes and people he knew best, civil war and destruction. He also wrote about the society in the South by inventing families which represented different social forces: the old, decaying upper class; the rising, ambitious, unscrupulous class of “poor whites”; and the Negroes who labored for both of them. And most of his stories took place in Yoknapatawpha County in his imagination.