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elax our breath yet, because we are keeping imagining that how horrible to sleep with a corpse for 40 years. All of that let us believe that this is a gothic fiction which describes the gothic topic about murder and dead and gives the feeling of scare.
 3.2 Gothic Form
     The character of Emily is stubborn, eccentric and mysterious, who is involved in “gothic form”. She has been isolated from the outside world for forty-year since her father is dead and Homer’s missing. Her door remains closed all the year round and refuses all the visitors. Actually, she is an unrealistic stubborn woman. She does not dispose her father’s body, and “She told them that her father was not dead.”(杨立民，2006：105) Despite the law, she refuses to pay the taxes. It seems that she does not know Colonel Sartoris has been dead for ten years. She is believed that she refuses to accept the changes in society to some extent. She takes pain to keep her superior, dignity and the southern fair lady impression.
 Emily is a typical example of the dead south. The failure of the Civil War brings corruption and decline to the South, which is very obvious in economy and politics. However, it is imperceptible in moral and psychology. The South originally has their own unique economic form, cultural style, life way and moral standard, even their own language. All of these elements easily stimulate the southerner rise a feeling of the nostalgia, which has solidified for the failure of the South in the Civil War. Therefore, the war leads to a strange contradictory phenomenon: the old South “dies” as long as the failure of the war, but it more obstinately “survives” than any other times. The South “dead” in society and economy, but it is still “alive” in the culture and spirit.
 Pitiable Emily is solidified by time. She falls into the past glories and honors of the South, but can not be brave enough to face the real life. Faulkner vividly pictures the southerners’ subtle, complicated and contradictory psychology towards Emily. Emily is only the epitome of the southern declining aristocracies. As the famous critic Malcolm Cloy says “The southern people lived under so heavy pressure that they almost lost their rational behavior, but responded mechanically.”(肖明翰,1999:278) Thus, they break out some uncontrollable violence and unreasonable behaviors occasionally. On the other hand, they tightly cling on the luxury and glories in the past to escape the reality, which seems extremely unrealistic and ridiculous. In this way, Faulkner criticizes the southerners who live in a new time but keep outdated mind. And his distorted psychology is exactly the spiritual essence of the collapsing old south. From a new perspective, Faulkner re-examines closely and explains all of these, and sympathizes the southerners’ thinking way and moral standard.
 3.3 Gothic Style
 Besides the topic and character are the gothic elements, the description of environment in the fiction adopts the typical gothic style. Emily’s house and both inside and outside environment are gothic ones.
 Emily’s house is a special style building made of wood. When her parents are alive, the house was noble style, which “had once been white, decorated with cupolas and spires and scrolled balconies in the heavily lightsome style of the Seventies.” (杨立民，2006:103) As the time passes, however, the house still keeps its outdated style and 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。