A Rose for Emily书评

A Rose for Emily 的评析(2010-06-21 23:49:34)转载▼标签：文化威廉.福克纳和他的《献给爱米丽的玫瑰》摘要：福克纳把南方的历史和现实社会作为自己创作源泉而成为美国南方文学的代表。

《献给爱米丽的玫瑰》通过爱米丽的爱情悲剧揭示了新旧秩序的斗争及没落贵族阶级的守旧心态，福克纳运用神秘、暗语、象征、时序颠倒等写作手法来揭示这一主题。

关键词：威廉·福克纳；献给爱米丽的玫瑰；南方小说一、威廉·福克纳的南方情结威廉·福克纳(William Faulkner，1897-1962)是美国文学史上久负盛名的作家之一，生于密西西比州一个在内战中失去财富和地位的没落的南方种植园家庭。

福克纳的大多数作品都以美国南方为背景，强调南方主题和南方意识。

在他19部长篇小说和75篇短篇小说中，绝大多数小说的故事都发生在他虚构的美国的约克纳帕塔法县(Yoknapatawpha county）和杰弗生镇。

这些作品所展示的生活画卷和人物形象构成了福克纳笔下的“约克纳帕塔法世系”。

“约克纳帕塔法世系”是以该县家族的兴衰、变迁为主题，故事所跨越的时间上起自印地安人与早期殖民者交往的岁月，止于第二次世界大战后，长约二百年。

他的世系小说依南方家系人物的生活而展开，以南方浓郁的泥土气息伴随着因工业文明而带来的焦虑、惶惑、无奈，把一百多年来即从1800年到第二次世界大战之后社会发展过程中，南方人所独有的情感和心态通过独特的艺术方式展示出来，可谓一部“南方生活的史诗”。

在这部史诗的字里行间，留下了作家的血与泪之痕：割不断爱恋南方古老精神的一片深情，可又抵御不了现代文明进程的必然性。

正如福克纳所说：“我爱南方，也憎恨它。

这里有些东西我本不喜欢。

但是我生在这里，这是我的家。

因此，我愿意继续维护它，即便是怀着憎恨。

”这种矛盾恰好构成了福克纳情感意识及其小说世界的无穷魅力。

结果，约克纳帕塔法县成了旧南方的象征，而福克纳也借此成功地表现了整个南方社会的历史和意识。

Review of a Rose for EmilyA Rose for Emily is a very popular short story because of its style, climax, and plot. The author, William Faulkner, was a Southern writer from Oxford, Mississippi. Faulkner bases this story on the tale of Oxford's aristocracy Miss Mary Neilson. She married Captain Jack Hume, the charming Y ankee foreman of a street-paving crew, over her family's shocked protests. The style of this story is false romance. Miss Emily's father, before his death, would run off every man that tried to court her. Because of this, she felt any man she loved would leave her. After falling in love with Homer Baron, she feared he would run off like the others. To keep this from happening, she poisoned him and kept his body upstairs in the bedroom. The climax focuses on the room where the corpse was found. After Miss Emily's death, the town people were cleaning up the house and found a room that was locked. They had to break down the door. To their surprise, they found Homer Baron's corpse lying in the bed dressed in a night shirt. As the story progresses there is no indication that he had died. When they found the toilet things sitting on the dresser with initials H.B., it was well known that the corpse was Homer Baron. I first thought it was her father in the bed, but I realized that her father wasalready buried. I then knew it had to be her lover. I cringed on the thought of what she did while she was lying next to the corpse. Finally, the end of this story surrounds a woman's life from her mid twenties until her death at the age of seventy-four. It describes a prominent lady of a town who led a private life. I learned, while reading this story that this woman is crazy and had the mind of a child. She seemed to lose everything she loved.But I still have a question. The question is “Where is the rose in the A Rose for Emily?”Emily was never given a rose, even when she died there was no mention of a rose. In the story the only time a scented thing was mentioned was lime to cover a smell. Emily like the insinuated rose is never present in the story. Even when Emily has a line of dialog it is spoken thought the filter of the narrator’s perspective. The narrator or the town is concerned with what role Emily is playing, although since Emily is not present in the story, but through hearsay, the reader has to decipher between the roll assigned to her by the narrator and actuality of the role Emily fulfills.Everyone went to Emily’s funeral. No one went to the funeral out of respect for the dead. Emily became a person known only though hearsay between town folk. No one knew Emily. “Women went out of curiosity to see the inside of her house.” The women went to the funeral to fill a gap.In a time where entertainment wasn’t prevalent, Emily became the late night drama and sole topic of conversation for the town. The town did not morn, the person, Emily they mourned the personified topic of conversation. The town paid respect to the topic that took up time in their conversations.The town saw Emily as inseparable from what she was. The town saw Emily as, “…a small, fat woman in black…” as opposed to a woman with a small skeleton. The town could not separate the Emily they knew from the Emily that was present. The juxtaposition was fused into the town’s notion of Emily. T he druggist must have seen a hint of Emily’s shift in personality. The druggist either did not care about Emily or wanted her dead. The druggist gave her the poison thinking the probability that she was going to kill herself was likely. The druggist didn’t even consider another possibility before spreading the rumor to the town. The druggist would not have given up the poison to Emily before her father died, but now Emily was the same one the town sighed, “…Poor Emily…” for.Emily was a lady when her father was alive. Emily is only a lady, because of who her father was. She is a lady out of only legacy. The narrator knows what Emily did, yet the narrator sympathies with Emily up till the end trick the reader into sympathizing along with the story. In the end the reader and the narrator know Emily is a lady no longer, notonly because she is now dead but because she killed and kept a corpse for cuddling. Ladies don’t cuddle with corpses, but up until the discovery of the corpse Emily remained a lady in the ey es of the town. “They waited until Miss Emily was decently in the ground before…” the town opened the door to the room Emily was keeping her corpse. The town waited because they knew they were going to find something off kilter in that room. Something which could and eventually force change on their opinion of Emily, the town did not wanted to keep what they knew about Emily while she was alive separate from what they knew about her when she was dead.Upon the discovery of the body the fused juxtaposition the town carried with them was removed from their notion of Emily. Neither, the reader or the narrator can relate the Emily at the end of the story to the Emily that existed to hinted ideas of who Emily was before events of the story. There is no reconcili ation between the two Emily’s. They share different traits. The first, being the lady, the father’s daughter. The second Emily being an off kilter person struggling with craziness the only way she knows how. But because the story is not written from Emily’s perspective the reader cannot see the shift into craziness directly until the end and is left wondering with the narrator what caused Emily to defy my notion of what a lady is supposed to be?In the end the “Rose” for Emily is just as absent from the sto ry as Emily herself. Emily is portrayed in flickers between the town folk’s skewed options about her, about her house, about her life style and about her choice in bed room arrangements. The lady Emily reveals two things about herself though out the story, she doesn’t like to pay taxes, and she is willing to kill and keep a corpse around. Creating an option based upon what Emily reveals about herself, it’s safe to say Emily was never a lady, and never thought of herself as a lady.ReferenceBrooks, Cleanth and Roert Penn Warren. Understanding Fiction, 2nd ed. New Y ork: Appleton-Century-Crofts, Inc, 1959:351Roberts, Diane. Faulkner and Southern womanhood, Athens and London: The University of Georgia Press, 1994:158Olga W. Vicky. The Novels of William Faulkner: A Critical Appraisal [M]. Baton Rouge: Louisiana State University Press, 1964Review of the Cask of AmontilladoThe Cask of Amontillado is a daring story by the ever-famous Edgar Allen Poe that shows the pain of hate and desire for revenge. Remember always though to not forget the Golden Rule and that prideful reaping will only bring about to you a large and painful fall. Many people have wanted to gain revenge but for a man to say that he is to conduct his action of revenge with full intention of making justice in one’s own mind is an accusation of pure madness. But what could one possibly do to receive such hate from another? The question is a mystery but you can’t tell me you aren’t interested about Poe’s story so please sit b ack and let me tell you about why it is so good. Poe makes his point clear in the Cask of Amontillado by his amazing use of literary elements such as plot, setting, and foreshadowing.Poe uses one the very planning parts of a story to tell his tail in an amazing way through the literary element of plot. Stories can have very strong, light, and any combination of types of plots. The Cask of Amontillado has a strong plot. The Story lines up in the plot perfectly. There is an explanation of why the character is wanting to get revenge fills strongly to act upon the other character. Montresor the narrator is seeking revenge after Fortunato who is the other large character in the story. His introduction starts saying,“The thousand injuries of Fortunato I had borne as I best could, but when he ventured upon insult I vowed revenge.”The intention of your main character is clearly stated although reason is not; you have no doubt from the vocabulary that he is greatly offended. Then actions that follow bring about ability to carry out, but can he struggle past himself in morality, and can he struggle against his adversary to achieve his objectives? Poe uses the knowledge he possesses to carry his idea to the max and then fall into the next part of the story giving succession and strong plot to follow. He doesn’t introduce you with a setting but in the actions and the climax he uses foreshadowing and setting to assist the conducting of his plot properly.With the use of his plot he also teaches you the theme of the story, that you ultimately reap what you sow. For a story to really teach a life lesson in the theme of the story the author has to stay focused on his message and the idea while he is carrying out the actual actions of the story. It takes the entire story working together for it to be a success, and to me a successful story cannot be written unless you have to pay attention to every aspect to fully understand it. The characters are realistic and there is a proven sense of seriousness throughout the story and Poe’s extensive understanding of plot and use of it proves all of this. If you are to see the revenge in a story you have to have a seriousmood, that of hate, at the beginning and on into the conflict. Then you see the madness created and the climax will show if the revenge is truly a success or a failure that all results of over flooded hatred. “Nemo me impune lacessit”, or in English no one attacks me with impunity could be a statement of assurance or a statement of ignorant pride. When you read The Cask of Amontillado remember to first look at the plot that is used Edgar Allen Poe.Y ou can’t very well carry out a nursery rhythm in a dark mansion or a horror story in the sunny beautiful place that one would enjoy frolicking because set ting is another vital part of an author’s success in his/her story. Poe is an author that fully understood this element and used it also wisely. If you think of revenge you think of dark sinister thoughts. A story of revenge has a setting of scary eeriness and one that would cause fear because revenge is not a warm cuddly area and in composing a short story Poe knew that where the story took place was a vital piece of the puzzle and you can see that from these quotes I would like to pull out of the story:·“. . ., bowed him through several suites of rooms to the archway that led into the vaults. I passed down a long and winding staircase, requesting him to be cautious as he followed. We came at length to the foot of the descent, and stood together upon the damp ground of the catacombs of the Montresors.”·“Its walls had been lined with human remains, piled to the vault overhead, in the fashion of the great catacombs of Paris . . . From the fourth side the bones had been thrown down, and lay promiscuously upon the earth, forming at one point a mound of some size . . . It seemed to have been constructed for no especial use within itself, but formed merely the interval between two of the colossal supports of the roof of the catacombs, and was back by one of their circumscribing walls of solid granite.”Setting pulls you in the story, and make inferences, and gives you a sign of foreshadowing on the events to follow. Symbolism is a big element that lies right within the barriers of setting and gives symbolism of things to come. The settings presented in these two quotes of the story show you signs of death and evil by describing objects surrounding, colors, and even the setup of the setting itself. Y ou can’t tell your story and have it ma ke any sense if you don’t have the proper setting.Poe also uses foreshadowing along with his uses of plot and setting to bring across his message and to make this story one that you will read and enjoy. A well-written horror story has to have suspense or it just doesn’t give you that jumpy or that scared feeling. Poe brings to you in this story foreshadowing and that creepy suspenseful feeling. This is hard for a writer to do but Poe does it anyway with such a way that just makes his story much better. Look again at the setting quotes that I brought out ofthe story and you can see the coming of death and misery but you aren’t able to see the result of the conflict because while he gives you sign of the defiant success of the main character Poe doesn’t let you know quite yet because he throws in shadows of doubt and questioning.In Poe’s use of foreshadowing he also used the plot to aid the device by letting some of the major rising action be direct foreshadowing events to use the two device as one and enlighten ideas of mystery. Y ou read the story trying to break it apart because you want to know if Montressor will succeed in quest of receiving revenge, but you just can’t see for it to happen or to not happen. Y ou can see how just in these three elements I mentioned that Poe molded together and let each literary device hold up the other. But why would an author feel so strongly to write a story of revenge and it was just an act of justice?Edgar Allen Poe lived a very short and tragic life that was compiled by attributes of dislike, loneliness, and death of the few people that he allowed himself to get close to and love. Poe had to experience a lot of self-conflict that defiantly pushed him to his all and all. He had a list problems compelled that consisted of gambling, drugs, alcohol, and constant depression because he could not take revenge on the thing that caused him the most pain and that was fait itself. Everyone he loved was taken by the incurable (at the time) disease of tuberculosis.I beli eve that this story was Poe’s way of saying he didn’t know how todeal with the inability to take revenge on his opposing force, which was fait. He seemed to hurt himself to an unreal level by taking into his life things like gambling (which he probably might have at a time was what he compared to life), drinking (to probably forget his pain), and maybe drugs (because he would probably seek a realm that had to be better than the reality that he lived in). He begins this story, “The thousand injuries of Fortunato I had borne as I best could, but when he ventured upon insult I vowed revenge.”I don’t know the approximate time that Edgar Allen Poe wrote this story but it was probably a time that he may had thought of suicide or even before he was found dead with alcohol in his system on a street corner. It seems that Poe could obviously not take revenge on fate and had no one to blame so he took out the bubbling hurt and made himself his own source of source of pain which would be his life itself and his own identity his outlet because he felt shut out from others because everyone he had loved left him in death. Some authors seek an inspiration for their writings but I believe that Poe just expressed his life and experiences and that is why he is notorious for his horror stories, scary isn’t it.I have given and supported my opinion to you as best to my ability and I know that when you read this story you will enjoy. Remember when you read to get the message that something is trying to teach you and after you enjoy a piece break it down in your mind. Poe used his ability toexpress himself in this story through the use of the literary element devices of setting, plot, and foreshadowing made it the story for me. I give The Cask of Amontillado my ballot and would venture to say that it is an example of how a short story should be written.ReferenceBenton, Richard P. "Poe's 'The Cask of Amontillado': Its Cultural and Historical Backgrounds." Poe Studies 29.1 (June 1996): 19-27. Bonaparte, Marie. The Life and Works of Edgar Allan Poe: APsycho-Analytic Interpretation. London: Hogarth, 1971.Davidson, Edward Hutchins. Poe, A Critical Study. Cambridge: Harvard University Press, 1957.。

aroseforemily读后感《A Rose for Emily》是美国著名作家威廉·福克纳的一部短篇小说，讲述了一个富裕家庭的女主人埃米莉的一生。

小说以埃米莉的死亡为开端，通过回忆的方式揭示了她一生的秘密和悲剧。

福克纳以其独特的叙事手法和深刻的思想描绘了埃米莉的内心世界，让读者深刻感受到了她的孤独、困惑和绝望。

小说以埃米莉的死亡为开端，通过回忆的方式揭示了她一生的秘密和悲剧。

福克纳以其独特的叙事手法和深刻的思想描绘了埃米莉的内心世界，让读者深刻感受到了她的孤独、困惑和绝望。

通过对埃米莉一生的描写，福克纳揭示了社会对女性的束缚和压迫，以及传统观念对个体命运的影响。

同时，小说中的埃米莉也是一个充满了矛盾和复杂性的人物，她既是一个温柔善良的女子，又是一个执着固执的人。

她的一生充满了悲剧和不幸，最终走向了孤独和绝望。

在小说中，福克纳对时间和空间的处理也是非常巧妙的。

他通过对埃米莉家的描写，展现了南方小镇的风土人情和传统习俗，同时也揭示了现代化进程对传统生活方式的冲击。

这种对时间和空间的处理，使得小说的叙事更加丰富多彩，让读者更加深入地理解了埃米莉的内心世界和命运。

总的来说，福克纳的《A Rose for Emily》是一部充满了悲剧色彩的作品，通过对一个女性的一生的描写，深刻地反映了社会对女性的束缚和压迫，以及传统观念对个体命运的影响。

同时，福克纳对时间和空间的处理也是非常巧妙的，使得小说的叙事更加丰富多彩。

这部小说不仅在文学上具有重要的价值，同时也对社会现实有着深刻的启示意义。

通过对埃米莉一生的描写，福克纳揭示了社会对女性的束缚和压迫，以及传统观念对个体命运的影响。

同时，小说中的埃米莉也是一个充满了矛盾和复杂性的人物，她既是一个温柔善良的女子，又是一个执着固执的人。

她的一生充满了悲剧和不幸，最终走向了孤独和绝望。

A Rose for Emily的评价美国现代作家福克纳在他的创作生涯中，一共写了19部长篇小说和75个短篇小说，其中15部长篇和绝大多数短篇故事，都发生在南方密西西比州北部的约克纳帕塔法县——福克纳为他的“写不尽的人和事”所虚构的一个神话王国，县中心是杰弗生镇——由此构成了一个“约克纳帕塔法”体系。

可以说，福克纳的成就，主要就表现在这个“约克纳帕塔法”体系上。

这一体系的主要内容可以分为四大类，其中最主要的一类，概括来说，就是美国南方种植园制度的一曲“挽歌”。

福克纳的主要长篇代表作《喧哗与骚动》、《押沙龙，押沙龙！》、《沙多里斯》等，都属于这一类故事，评论界评论最多的也是这些作品。

然而，同属此类、评论界提及甚少的短篇代表作——《纪念爱米丽的一朵玫瑰花》，却如同一支悄然绽放的玫瑰，以其独特的人物形象、性格塑造及悬念性叙述手法，在福克纳的作品中散发着诱人的艺术魅力。

《纪念爱米丽的一朵玫瑰花》是福克纳最优秀的短篇之一。

福克纳在这个弥漫着浪漫气息的题目下，讲述了一个耸人听闻的老处女的故事：（此处省略）小说中的爱米丽小姐，“高贵、宁静、无法逃避、无法接近、怪僻乖张”。

她不许别人埋葬她的死去的父亲，对所有前来表示哀悼和接济的人，她一连三天都挡在门外，说她的父亲并没死。

新一代镇政府当局亲自登门造访，非常客气地请她纳税，她“声调冷酷无情”，反复说的只是“我在杰弗生无税可缴，你们去找沙多里斯上校。

”（沙多里斯上校死了将近十年了。

）全镇实行免费邮递制度后，也只有她一个拒绝在她的门口钉上金属门牌号，附设一个邮箱。

没有人可以接近爱米丽小姐，所有与爱米丽小姐打交道的人都惨败而归。

即使她的宅院里散发出令邻里们难以容忍的熏天臭气（来自于她情人荷默的腐尸），人们也只能像夜盗一样在午夜之后偷偷绕着她的屋子潜行，沿着墙脚撒石灰。

爱米丽小姐总是把头抬得高高的，仿佛要求人们承认她作为格里尔生家族末代人物的尊严。

她怎样也不理睬镇上的人，不理睬外面变化的世界。

“A Rose for Emily”中译本赏析——以杨岂深的译本为例摘要：A Rose for Emily 《献给埃米莉的玫瑰》讲述了美国南北战争后南方小镇-----杰弗逊镇上没落的格尔森贵族家庭中埃米莉的悲剧故事。

作者威廉·卡斯伯特·福克纳（William Cuthbert Faulkner）为美国文学史上最具影响力的作家之一，美国“南方文艺复兴”时期成就最显著的南方作家和现代主义作家。

以杨岂深先生的译本为例，对小说分别从忠实的标准，形似与神似的矛盾，主人公对话语言的描写三个方面进行翻译研究，有益于提高读者的文学素养，提升文学翻译实践能力。

关键词：埃米莉；译本；忠实；形似与神似；对话Abstract: A Rose for Emily tells the tragic story of Emily Grierson, the daughter of a noble declining family, which happened in a small southern American town-----Jefferson after American Civil War. The author, William Cuthbert Faulkner, is one of the most influential writers in the American literary history, the most significant Southern writer and modernism writer in the American "Northern Renaissance" period. This paper is based on the version of translator Yang Qishen. Mainly discusses the translation study from three aspects—— faithful standard, the contradictions between appearance and soul , description of the heroine's conversation, which will be helpful for the improvement of readers 'literary accomplishment, and contributes to the well study of literary translation.Key words:Emily; version; faithfulness; contradictions between appearance and soul; conversation前言A Rose for Emily《献给埃米莉的玫瑰》为南方文学鼻祖威廉•福克纳（William Faukner）所创作的著名短篇小说，1930年4月发表时被誉为最负盛名的小说。

试析《纪念爱米丽的一朵玫瑰花》中的时间艺术与死亡主题摘要美国杰出的现代小说大家威廉·福克纳的短篇小说《纪念艾米丽的一朵玫瑰花》运用了时序颠倒与循环叙事的独特艺术手法，从而展示了现代主义小说中关于时间艺术的理解和运用。

而福克纳更是将自己的时间观贯彻到了整篇小说的创作中，并在死亡主题这一特殊形式的的叙述中得到了深刻的体现。

关键词《纪念艾米丽的一朵玫瑰花》时间死亡威廉·福克纳最负盛名的短篇小说《纪念爱米丽的一朵玫瑰花》讲述了一位没落的南方贵族小姐亲手杀死自己的爱人，然后陪伴其尸身并在古屋中隐居四十之久的具有哥特式神秘、恐怖意味的故事。

南方淑女爱米丽小姐是旧贵族的象征，对于她的纪念是作为南方作家的福克纳对于逝去的旧南方的无限缅怀之情。

但另一方面，爱米丽的最终死亡也喻示了一座纪念碑的倒下，表明了作者对于最终湮没的南方社会既眷念热爱又批判其沉沦罪恶的矛盾心态。

时间，在传统现实主义小说的叙事中往往呈线性发展，“故事和情节小说遵循着时间的线形关系、事件的连锁关系体现为一种因果关系和时间上的线性顺序，任何外部事件都依赖于这样一种时间的线性关系”。

①在《纪念艾米丽的一朵玫瑰花》这篇小说文本当中，我们很容易发现它的最大艺术特色就是时序的颠倒与循环叙事。

小说以爱米丽之死为叙述的起点，站在杰斐逊镇居民的视角上进行叙事，作者以倒叙的手法描述了爱米丽生前的几个主要事件。

在颠倒的时间顺序中，首先叙述的是爱米丽拒绝纳税事件，然后是富有神秘气息的尸臭事件，接着作者却把时间往过去推进，则出现了父亲之死，再接下来的与北方工头荷默恋爱及他与爱米丽发生冲突后爱米丽去购买砒霜，紧接下来荷默的消失与爱米丽小姐长达四十年的隐居生活之谜在小说的最后一部分终于被揭开。

古屋中楼上的房间中竟然躺着死去了四十年的荷默，“那尸身躺在那里，显出一度是拥抱的姿势，但那比爱情更能持久，那战胜了爱情的煎熬的永恒的长眠已经使他驯服了。

”②更让人心惊的是尸身旁边的枕头上遗留了爱米丽小姐的“一绺长长的铁灰色头发”。

a rose for emily解读与译赏《A Rose for Emily》是美国作家威廉·福克纳的短篇小说，被认为是福克纳最杰出的作品之一。

这个故事揭示了一位孤独的南方女性艾米丽·格里森的生活，以及她与社会的冲突和疏离感。

故事以艾米丽的葬礼开始，随后回溯到她生前的往事。

艾米丽是一个古怪而孤立的人物，她居住在一个受到时间遗忘的南方小镇，被当地人视为传奇。

她的父亲在她年轻的时候过世，使得她变得孤独和隐居。

她与一个北方建筑师霍默·巴伦的关系引起了镇上人的不满和猜疑，但他们之间的真实情况始终是个谜。

艾米丽的生活充满了秘密和谜团，她甚至杀害了她的恋人霍默并将他的尸体保存在一个密封的房间中。

这种行为揭示了她的精神崩溃和对时间的无法接受。

她试图保存过去的美好时光，但却无法逃脱时间的流逝。

作者通过描写艾米丽的故事，深入探讨了社会和传统观念对个体的压迫和破坏。

这个故事中的玫瑰象征着美好的过去和爱情。

艾米丽失去了父亲和她的恋人，她试图保留他们的存在并抵抗时间的消逝。

她在封闭的世界里过着与现实隔绝的生活，就像一个被遗忘的花朵。

然而，随着时间的推移，玫瑰凋谢了，就像艾米丽最终被时间所击败。

《A Rose for Emily》是福克纳对南方社会的批判，揭示了社会对个人的限制和破坏力量。

艾米丽代表着被压迫和被孤立的个体，她的悲剧反映了整个社会体系的腐败和堕落。

通过描写艾米丽的故事，福克纳呈现了一个关于时间、孤独和爱的复杂而深刻的图景。

总之，《A Rose for Emily》是一部充满象征主义和深度的文学作品，通过描述一个女性的孤独和精神崩溃，揭示了社会对个体的压迫和摧毁。

福克纳通过这个故事，向读者展示了一个关于时间、爱和社会的不公的悲剧。

ARoseforEmily书评第一篇：A Rose for Emily书评Book Review of A Rose for Emily--The Conflicts between Old and New A Rose for Emily is a masterpiece written by William Faulkner with sort of Gothic style.This short story is too abundant to penetrate completely.Therefore, I would like choose a perspective—the conflicts between old and new to discuss about.Change is a natural rule as same as life and death.While, at the beginning of the new thing emerging, the old generation always defenses the ancient tradition with total efforts.In this short story, Emily is a symbol of old traditions of South.She sticks to her family honor and turns down everything fresh.We can see that from these typical conflicts I select below.The first conflict—tax affair was appeared in para.5.At the first sentence ―when the next generation, with its more modern ideas… this arrangement created some little dissatisfaction.‖ The new generation can’t permit Emily to be free from taxes.They invoked the challenge, ―they mailed her a tax‖, while the old fought back—―and there was no reply‖.In the fires round, the new generation got a disappointment.Then in para.6, the second round started.The government set up a special meeting to save their first failure.Finally, they decided to dispatch a deputation to persuade Emily face to face.―Knocked at the door through which no visitors had passed since eight or ten years earlier‖ illuminates that the hostess of this house eludes the historic revolution.It was the old Negro not Emily herself who handled their reception.Next, the description of Emily’s house makes people feel creep.―It smelled of dust and disuse‖ ―It was furnished in heavy, leather-covered furniture‖ ―the leather wascracked‖ etc.Especially, a profound ―stood‖ in the last sentence when picturing the crayon portrait of Emily’s father illustrates that the old thoughts were still alive.Para.7 has the first appearance of Emily.―They rose when she entered.‖ They ―rose‖ may be out of their respect to the old cultural Emily stood for, or may be because they were surprised by Emily’s appearance.―a small, fat woman in black‖ ―a thin gold chain descending to her waist and vanishing into her belt‖ shows that she hated changing.―She looke d bloated, like a body long submerged in motionless water‖ This magical sketch makes people’s hair stand on the end.The old thoughts were degrading but the old warrior didn’t vanish.Para.8 exposes Emily’s distasteful attitude towards new thoughts.―She did not ask them to sit.‖ The ―just‖ explains the absolute arrogance ofEmily, it causes that ―the spokesman came to a stumbling halt‖.Although the conflict hadn’t started yet, Emily occupied the superiority.Para9—15 is a fierce argument between Emily and depu tation.―Her voice was dry and cold‖.The repetition of ―I have no taxes in Jefferson‖ accounts for the ―dry‖ and ―I received a paper, yes‖ ―Perhaps he considers himself the sheriff‖ and ―See Colonel Sartoris‖ ―Show these gentlemen out‖ demonstrates the ―cold‖.―dry‖ and ―cold‖ also mean that she despises newfangled stuffs.Para.16 is a transition.In first conflict, ―she vanquished them, horse and foot‖, then it naturally leads into the second conflict ―she had vanquished their fathers thirty years before and the smell.Chronologically, the second conflict happened earlier than the first.Para.17 gives the background of ―the smell‖ affair –―her father’s death‖ ―her sweetheart went away.‖ These two disasters create suspense to readers.What’s the relationship betwee n them and ―the smell‖?Para.18—22, the author drug out ―the smell‖ affair from women’s complaints.―the mayor‖ who was ―eighty years old‖ expressed his incapability—―what will you have me do about it?‖ The mayor is also aprotector of old generation.Therefore, he made a negative decision on handling ―the smell‖ problem.Para23—25, town people showed their dissatisfaction again.―One from a man who came in different deprecation‖ narrates his fear towards the judge.―One younger man, a member of the rising generation‖ made a more powerful utterance.Obviously, Judge Stevens disliked ―the younger man’s‖ bold tone, so he said ―Dammit, sir‖ to disapproved of him.Para.26 says how the town people solved the ―smell‖ problem.Without the endorsement from government, four men determined to handle this difficulty by themselves.From the view of a long distance away, they were ―like burglars‖ ―sniffing along the base of the brickwork‖ ―one of them performed a regular sowing motion.‖ Until now, readers might understand what they doing were.Suddenly, the author cuts shot closer.―a window that had been dark was delighted and Miss Emily sat in it…her upright torso motionless as that of an idol.‖ This portrait of Emily truly scares me.She saw the invasion of someone else, perhaps she has already collapsed mentally, and hence she did nothing but sat like a stone.In this conflict, the new generation won.After all, ―after a week or two the smell went away‖.Besides the occurrence I analyzed above, the love tragedy between Emily and Homer Barron also can be considered as the consequence of the conflict between North and South.In this novel, Emily symbolizes the South, old and tradition, the Yankee represents the North, new and modern.Both young guys might be interested in each other when they first meet.But they possessaltogether different values or concept of lives.So they inevitably separated before long.The conflict between the two partners symbolizes the conflict between the South and the North.And the absurd murder aggravates the contradictions.When I finished reading the story, a sincere sympathy emerges in my mind.Emily is totally a tragedy of the old traditions.She is a prisoner of the past, of the social and moral taboos of the South.In our daily life, everything is changing everyday.As an individual, we can only adapt ourselves to the protean environment and should learn to accept new things.In the war of ―new against old‖, the former always is the winner by the test of history.第二篇：书评书评范文（一）——《菜根谭》书评一个非常非常平凡的人，写了一部让历史永远不能忘却的奇书，那就是《菜根谭》。

A_rose_for_Emily赏析.doc《献给艾米丽的玫瑰》是美国著名作家威廉·福克纳的代表性短篇小说之一，讲述了一个有关孤独和死亡的故事。

小说叙事手法巧妙，通过回溯式叙事、时间叙事和意识流等手法，将人物的内心感受和思想渐次展现，在淡雅的笔触下，揭示出人性的各种暗面，让人深思和共鸣。

小说主要讲述了南方小镇杰斐逊市的一位老处女艾米丽·格里森的一生。

在小说的开头，艾米丽被描述为一个古怪的老太太，她家里充满了过时的东西，而她自己也常常被乡亲们阻挠。

接着，小说通过回溯式叙事，讲述了艾米丽的一生，其中最重要的部分是她与一个年轻的北方建筑师荷马的关系。

荷马是一位充满生机和活力的年轻人，他的到来为杰斐逊市带来了新的生命和希望。

然而，荷马的出现并没有给艾米丽带来幸福，反而让她更加孤独和悲伤。

艾米丽沉迷于对荷马的爱情中，不断地对他进行控制和束缚，最终导致了荷马的死亡。

为了保持她的爱情不死，艾米丽甚至在荷马死后将他的尸体保存了下来，直到她自己去世。

小说最后一段描述了艾米丽死亡之后，人们在她家里发现了荷马的尸体，这是一个极其恐怖和荒谬的场景。

艾米丽为了守护自己的爱情，不惜走向疯狂和破坏。

整个小说通过叙事技巧和情节安排，将艾米丽的生活和性格深入地展现出来，既描述了她生活的历程和经历的痛苦，也揭示了她内心的苦闷和恐惧。

《献给艾米丽的玫瑰》在结构上非常紧凑，通过叙事的逐层深入，将人物的形象和内心深处逐渐丰富起来。

福克纳的笔法又非常细腻，运用隐喻、象征、反讽等众多手法来刻画人物和表达主题。

这些手法让读者在阅读过程中不仅能够深刻理解人物的内心，还能够共鸣和思考他们所代表的意义。

总之，《献给艾米丽的玫瑰》是一篇富有深度和思想性的小说，它通过对艾米丽一生的描写，呈现了生命和死亡、孤独和爱情等多重主题，令人深感震撼和感悟。

它不仅是福克纳作品中的经典之作，也是世界文学史上不可忽略的一篇文学佳作。

A Rose for Emily 的评析(2010-06—21 23：49：34)转载▼标签：文化威廉.福克纳和他的《献给爱米丽的玫瑰》摘要:福克纳把南方的历史和现实社会作为自己创作源泉而成为美国南方文学的代表。

《献给爱米丽的玫瑰》通过爱米丽的爱情悲剧揭示了新旧秩序的斗争及没落贵族阶级的守旧心态，福克纳运用神秘、暗语、象征、时序颠倒等写作手法来揭示这一主题。

关键词：威廉·福克纳；献给爱米丽的玫瑰；南方小说一、威廉·福克纳的南方情结威廉·福克纳（William Faulkner，1897—1962)是美国文学史上久负盛名的作家之一，生于密西西比州一个在内战中失去财富和地位的没落的南方种植园家庭。

福克纳的大多数作品都以美国南方为背景，强调南方主题和南方意识。

在他19部长篇小说和75篇短篇小说中，绝大多数小说的故事都发生在他虚构的美国的约克纳帕塔法县(Yoknapatawpha county）和杰弗生镇。

这些作品所展示的生活画卷和人物形象构成了福克纳笔下的“约克纳帕塔法世系”.“约克纳帕塔法世系”是以该县家族的兴衰、变迁为主题,故事所跨越的时间上起自印地安人与早期殖民者交往的岁月，止于第二次世界大战后，长约二百年。

他的世系小说依南方家系人物的生活而展开，以南方浓郁的泥土气息伴随着因工业文明而带来的焦虑、惶惑、无奈,把一百多年来即从1800年到第二次世界大战之后社会发展过程中，南方人所独有的情感和心态通过独特的艺术方式展示出来，可谓一部“南方生活的史诗"。

在这部史诗的字里行间,留下了作家的血与泪之痕:割不断爱恋南方古老精神的一片深情，可又抵御不了现代文明进程的必然性.正如福克纳所说：“我爱南方，也憎恨它。

这里有些东西我本不喜欢。

但是我生在这里，这是我的家.因此，我愿意继续维护它，即便是怀着憎恨。

”这种矛盾恰好构成了福克纳情感意识及其小说世界的无穷魅力。

结果，约克纳帕塔法县成了旧南方的象征，而福克纳也借此成功地表现了整个南方社会的历史和意识.二、《献给爱米丽的玫瑰》暗示南方的腐朽没落福克纳素以长篇小说著称于世，但其短篇小说,无论艺术构思、意境创造、人物塑造抑或语言风格、结构艺术等，均可与其长篇小说互论短长，而其最著名的短篇之一《献给爱米丽的玫瑰》 A rose for Emily则对理解、研究福克纳的主要作品，即“约克纳帕塔法世系”具有十分重要的意义。