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ca. He shows deep sympathy for Emily’s love tragedy, so it is not difficult for us to understand why Faulkner presents a rose for her.
 Rose probably further implies that Emily’s life is just like a rose which would remain in the memory of the people in Jefferson’s town from generation to generation.  The following sentence will reveal this implication. “And now Miss Emily had gone to join the representatives of those august names where they lay in the cedar-bemused cemetery among the ranked and anonymous graves of Union and Confederate soldiers who fell at the battle of Jefferson.”(杨立民，2006:109)
 
 III. The Gothic Revival Style
 Faulkner lives in the South for a life long, and the field of south fertilizes him and shapes his character. “Therefore, his habit, thinking way and life attitude closely related with this unfortunate field.”(Jay, 1989:29) As the representative of the American traditional thinking, he has been deeply precipitated in his heart by “the most important and unconscious content”. That is why he shows his love to his hometown in such an unusual way—exposes the faults and gloomy aspects of the South. Maybe gothic characteristic in A Rose for Emily is the best way to express his emotion.
 3.1 Gothic Topic
 The topic is mainly about murder, death, violence and necrophilia. It vividly pictures a terrified story of an old virgin. Emily is the last member of the Grierson. She is a slim and gentle lady, but she almost loses her beauty when she appears again in her 30’s:“she looks bloated, like a body long submerged in motionless water, and of that pallid hue” (杨立民，2006:104) She died in her 74 years old finally. “Alive, Miss Emily had been a tradition, a duty, and a care; a sort of hereditary obligation upon the town.” (杨立民，2006:103) As long as Emily is dead, all the proud and dignity of gentle lady is dead out. Even in order to give her a hand, the pre-Colonel uses an excuse to avoid hurting her. Emily has been separated from the outside for nearly forty years after her father’s death and after the missing of her fiancé. “Daily, monthly, yearly we watched the Negro grow grayer and more stooped going in and out with the market basket.”(杨立民，2006:107) Sometimes, people can see her through the window, only find her “like the carven torso of an idol in a niche”. (杨立民，2006:105) It is until the end of her funeral that people discover the secret which they find Homer’s skeleton in a locked room. Obviously, the gentle lady deliberately performs and covers a murder. Critics regard that Emily retaliates by killing the north man with poison because he refuses to marry her.　

However, from another perspective, Emily is too empty to comfort herself. In order to make a man accompany her, she has no choice but kills him—in the way, she can stay with him forever. But this “gain” just is the forever “lost”. The moment she kills him, she is dead in spirit. The grief, desolation and sadness fill in her inner heart forever. Emily can not stand the fact that a south lady courts a north worker but fails. It is a perfect satire under the history condition in that time. Even like this, she still “carried her head high enough – even when we believed that she was fallen.” (杨立民，2006：107)
 The story, from the beginning to the end, gives us a feeling of gloomy and terror. When we finally finish the last word of this fiction, we can not r本论文由英语论文网提供整理，提供论文代写，英语论文代写，代写论文，代写英语论文，代写留学生论文，代写英文论文，留学生论文代写相关核心关键词搜索。