Miss Emily met Homer Baron

Emi l y A Ros e For鉴赏A Rose For EmilyThe short story “A Rose For Emily ” draws a vivid picture of thesouther n tow n Jeffers on of the Un ited States. Though the plot is not complicated, yet it can be regarded as a panorama of Faulkner ' s works. It attr acts readers ' attention successfully and makes us immersed in the whole story. And the ingenious usage of symbolism is a distinctive feature, which makes the story filled with profound implicatio ns. There are several differe nt symbolic subjects in it, such as the house, Miss Emily, Barron Homer and so on. In this thesis, the author tries to discuss them one by one from his point of view.《献给爱米丽的一朵玫瑰花》写得精致、完美；有如大理石上的雕刻图案，含有值得永久纪念的神圣意味。

世界驰名的威廉•福克纳(William Faulk ner) —向以长篇小说震撼世人。

他的《喧哗与骚动》、《押沙龙，押沙龙！》已成为20世纪无可争议的杰作。

意识流的手法娴熟运用，确立了他作品意象迭变、繁复多元的风格。

The Synopsis of A Rose for EmilyA Rose for EmilyPart1Part 2Part 3Miss Emily was sick for a long time.When we saw her again,her hair was cut short,making her look like a girl,with a vague resemblance to those angels in colored church windows--sort of tragic and serene.A year later, Miss Emily, now over30,entered the town’s drugstore and announces, “I want some poison.”When the druggist was reluctant to sell her any without a reason,she used her aristocratic bearing to intimidate him:Part 4The townspeople, never suspecting that the poison was intended for Homer,concluded that Miss Emily would likely use it to kill herself. After Homer announced to the men that he was not the marrying kind, the townspeople thought that his and Miss Emily’s relationship was a disgrace, and they tried to stop it.Sure enough,after another week they departed.And,as we had expected all along, within three days Homer Barron was back in town. A neighbor saw the Negro man admit him at the kitchen door at dusk one evening. And that was the last we saw of Homer Barron, and of Miss Emily for some time.When we next saw Miss Emily, she had grown fat and her hair was turning gray.During the next few years it grew grayer and grayer until it attained an even pepper-and-salt iron-gray,when it ceased turning. Up to the day of her death at seventy-four it was still that vigorous iron-gray, like the hair of an active man.Part 5Her black servant met the mourners, who arrived at the house, then he walked out the back door and disappeared forever, apparently fully awared that Homer’s decayed body was upstairs. Upon her burial, the town began an inspection of thehouse that was closed for the last ten years. What they found was astonishing. Miss Emily had been hiding Homer's dead body.He was laid out in a bed;next to him was an imprint,and one of her long gray hairs.she wanted Homer to be her forever.131803xx080618。

08110 Sun JieThe Funeral of Love"A Rose for Emily"，written by William Faulkner，is a short story about the life and death of Miss Emily Grierson. William Faulkner once said, “A Rose for Emily was an allegorical title; the meaning was，here was a woman who had had a tragedy，an irrevocable tragedy and nothing could be done about it，and I pitied her and this was a salute 。

. to a woman you would hand a rose.”After I read the short but attractive story，the love tragedy impressed me very much.A Rose for Emily is Faulkner’s the most widespread short stor y. With gothic horror and mysterious plots，it tells us a distorted love tragedy。

It shows the influence of the past on people; and mold an image of a girl who never let love go。

At the beginning of the story，the author described Miss Emily’s funeral: “When Miss Emily Grierson died，our whole town went to her funeral". They went there not only for respectful affection，but also for curiosity. For a long period of time, Miss Emily is a mysterious and arrogant woman. At the end of the story, the author revealed the truth：Homer Barron was killed in Miss Emily's room above stairs，a room decked and furnitured as for bridal. What happened between Miss Emily and Homer Barron that night？Was Homer Barron really a homosexual? Is this the real reason that he was killed in a bridal room that Miss Emily prepared？Perhaps the truth of the tragedy had gone with Miss Emily. Her 74-year life bore a lot about her class and status in society. For all these，she had to give up the right to love。

A-R o s e-f o r-E m i l y-英文分析及简评本页仅作为文档封面，使用时可以删除This document is for reference only-rar21year.March“A Rose for Emily” is divided into five sections.The first section opens with a description of the Grierson house in Jefferson. The narrator mentions that over the past 100 years, Miss Emily Grierson’s home has fall into disrepair and become “an eyesore among eyesores.” The first sentence of the story sets the tone of how the citizens of Jefferson felt about Emily: “When Miss Emily Grierson died, our whole town went to the funeral: the men through a sort of respectful affection for a fallen monument, the women mostly out of curiosity to see the inside of her house, which no one save an old manservant – a combined gardener and cook –had seen in at least ten years.”It is known around town that Emily Grierson has not had guests in her home for the past decade, except her black servant who runs errands for her to and from the market. When a new city council takes over, however, they begin to tax her once again. She refuses to pay the taxes and appear before the sheriff, so the city authorities invite themselves into her house. When confronted on her tax evasion, Emily reminds them that she doesn't have to pay taxes in Jefferson and to speak to Colonel Sartoris, although he had died 10 years before.In section two, the narrator explains that the Griersons had always been a very proud Southern family. Mr. Grierson, Emily’s father, believes no man is suitable for his daughter and doesn't allow her to date. Emily is largely dependent upon her father, and is left foundering when he dies. After Mr. Grierson's death, Emily does not allow the authorities to remove his body for three days, claiming he is still alive. She breaks down and allows authorities to take the body away for a quick burial.Section three introduces Emily’s bea u, Homer Barron, a foreman from the north. Homer comes to Jefferson with a crew of men to build sidewalks outside the Grierson home. After Emily and Homer are seen driving through town several times, Emily visits a druggist. There, she asks to purchase arsenic. The druggist asks what the arsenic is for since it was required of him to ask by law. Emily does not respond and coldly stares him down until he looks away and gives her the arsenic. When Emily opens the package, underneath the skull and bones sign is written, "For Rats."Citizens of Jefferson believe that Miss Emily is going to commit suicide since Homer has not yet proposed in the beginning of section four. The townspeople contact and invite Emily's two cousins to comfort her. Shortly after their arrival, Homer leaves and then returns after the cousins leave Jefferson. After staying in Jefferson for one night, Homer is never seen again. After Homer’s disappearance, Emily begins to age, gain weight, and is rarely seen outside of her home. Soon, Miss Emily passes away.The fifth and final section begins with Jefferson women entering the Grierson home. After they arrive, Emily's black servant leaves through the back door without saying a word. After Emily's funeral, the townspeople immediately go through her house. They come across a room on the second floor which no one had seen in 40 years, and break the door down. They discover a dusty room strangely decorated as a bridal room. The room contains a man's tie, suit and shoes, and a silver toilet set which Miss Emily had purchased for Homer years before his disappearance. Homer's remains lay on the bed, dressed in a nightshirt. Next to him is an impression of a head on a pillow where the townspeople find a single “long strand of iron-gray hair.” It is thus implied that not only had Emily killed Homer with the arsenic, but also has had an intimate relationship with his corpse up to her own death.简评：Miss Emily met Homer Baron, a foreman with a construction company, when her hometown was first getting paved streets. Her father had already died but, not before driving away her eligible suitors. As rumors circulate about her possible marriage to a Yankee, Homer leaves town abruptly. During his absence, Miss Emily buys rat poison.When Homer returns, the t ownspeople see him enter Miss Emily’s house but not leave. Only when she dies do the townspeople discover his corpse on a bed in her house and, next to it, a strand of Miss Emily’s hair.This Gothic plot makes serious points about woman’s place in society. Throughout the story, the reader is aware that these events are taking place during a time of transition: The town is finally getting sidewalks and mailboxes. More important, values are changing. The older magistrates, for example, looked on Miss Emily paternally and refused to collect taxes from her; the newer ones try, unsuccessfully, to do so.Caught in these changing times, Miss Emily is trapped in her role as genteel spinster. Without a husband, her life will have no meaning. She tries to give lessons in painting china but cannot find pupils for this out-of-date hobby and finally discontinues them. If Homer is thinking of abandoning her, as his departure implies, one can understand her desire to clutch at any sort of union, even a marriage in death.The theme is developed through an exceptionally well-crafted story. Told from a third-person plural point of view, it reveals the reactions of the town to Miss Emily. As this “we” narrator shifts allegiance--now criticizing Miss Emily, now sympathizing with her--the reader sees the trap in which she is caught, and the extensive butunobtrusive foreshadowing prepares the reader for the story’s final revelation without detracting from its force.。

无缝衔接下的错乱情节——《献给爱米丽的玫瑰》的衔接和连贯分析张志敏【摘要】A Rose for Emily is highly cohesive,but under the tight structure is the disordered arrangement of incidents.The cohesion of and within different parts of the story builds up the surface unity of the text,but does not contribute to the coherence of the story.To achieve the unity and coherence of the story,the reader should integrate the disordered plot and make further analysis,inferences and evaluation through the broken pieces of the plot.The inconsistency of the surface structure and the inner structure requires the reader to actively participate in the construction and interpretation of the story.The relation between cohesion and coherence in A rose for Emily reflects the text feature of modernistic fiction.%《献给爱米丽的玫瑰》各部分之间的衔接可谓天衣无缝,但在这种无缝衔接的下面却是事件的错乱安排。

情节是读者获取小说连贯或主题的重要依据。

Analysis of "A Rose for Emily"姓名：**** 学号：***** 班级**** Like so many American writers, Faulkner found himself again and again writing short stories, some of which are considered as equally important as his best novels. Good as his short stories are, they seem always at the threshold of being absorbed into the Y oknapatawpha saga —that legendary matrix which is Faulkner’s real achievement. However, for a beginner of Faulkner scholarship, his short stories may well be an easy start. “A Rose for Emily” is Faulkner’s first short story published in 1930. Set in the town of Jefferson in Y oknopatawpha, the story focuses on Emily Grierson, an eccentric spinster who refuses to accept the passage of time, or the inevitable change and loss that accompanies it. Simple as it is in plot, the story is pregnant with meaning. As a descendent of the Southern aristocracy, Emily is typical of those in Faulkner’s Y oknapatwapha stories who are the symbols of the Old South but the prisoners of the past. In this story, Faulkner makes best use of the Gothic devices in narration, and, the deformed personality and abnormality Emily demonstrates in her relationship with her sweetheart is dramatized in such a way that we feel shocked and thrilled as we read along."A Rose for Emily" recounts the story of an eccentric spinster, Emily Grierson. An unnamed narrator details the strange circumstances of Emily’s life and her odd relationships with her father, who controlled and manipulated her, and her lover, the Y ankee road worker Homer Barron. When Homer Barron threatens to leave her, she is seen buying arsenic, which the townspeople believe she will commit suicide with. After this, Homer Barron is not heard from again, and is assumed to have returned north. Though she does not commit suicide, the townspeople of Jefferson continue to gossip about her and her eccentricities, citing her family's history of mental illness. She is heard from less and less, and rarely ever leaves her home. Unbeknownst to the townspeople until her death, in her upstairs room she hides all day with the corpse of Homer Barron, which explains the horrid stench that emits from Miss Emily's house.The story’s complexities have inspired critics while casual readers found the work one of Faulkner’s most accessible (and shortest) works. The popularity of the story was due in no small part to its gruesome ending.The story explores many themes, including the society of the South at that time, the role of women in the South, and extreme psychosis.In the story, the townspeople's points of views on Emily actually reflect the society's value at that moment to some extent. Although the townspeople don't have direct contact with Emily, their views on her and her family greatly affect her life. Their praises and admiration influence her father to keep her sheltered longer than she actually needs to be. Her father controls her thoughts and lifestyle. Emily feels that she is released when her father is dead. She dives into love with Homer and neglects people's judgments on her. When she realizes that Homer intends to leave her again, she makes sure that he would always be with her, whether he is alive or not. In his death Emily finds eternal love which is something no one could ever take away from her.William Faulkner regarded the past as a repository of great images of human effort and integrity, but also as the source of a dynamic evil. He was aware of the romantic pull of the past and realized that submission to this romance of the past was a form of death (Warren, 269). In "A Rose for Emily", Faulkner contrasted the past with the present era. The past was represented in Emily herself, in Colonel Sartoris, in the old Negro servant, and in the Board of Alderman who accepted the Colonel's attitude toward Emily and rescinded her taxes.The present was expressed chiefly through the words of the unnamed narrator. The new Board of Aldermen, Homer Barron (the representative of Y ankee attitudes toward the Griersons and thus toward the entire South), and in what is called "the next generation with its more modern ideas" all represented the present time period (Norton Anthology, 2044). Miss Emily was referred to as a "fallen monument" in the story (Norton Anthology, 2044). She was a "monument" of Southern gentility, an ideal of past values but fallen because she had shown herself susceptible to death (and decay). The description of her house "lifting its stubborn and coquettish decay above the cotton wagons and the gasoline pumps--an eyesore among eyesores" represented a juxtaposition of the past and present and was an emblematic presentation of Emily herself.I.The Symbol of Miss Emily.In this short story, Miss Emily is a static character who refused to believe that the times were changing and refused to change into the new society. As a Mississippi Southern Belle, she was born and raised in a wonderful state. She is considered a “monument” of southern manners and an ideal of past values. Her southern heritage and points of view are represented through her actions. Her stubbornness and unrelenting attitude are very strong characteristics of the southern heritage, so Emily symbolizes the old southern tradition; her death symbolizes the collapse of the old southern traditionⅡ. The Symbol of the House.In this short story, Faulkner applies symbolism to compare the Grierson house with Emi ly’s physical deterioration, her shift in social standing, and her unwillingness to accept changing. When compared chronologically, it is used to symbolize Emily’s physical attributes. And Faulkner also sets the house as a symbol for Emily’s change in social status. When Miss Emily died, her and her house both become symbols of their dying generation.Ⅲ. The Symbol of Rose.William Faulkner’s symbolic use of the “rose” is essential to the story’s theme of Miss Emily’s self-isolation. The rose is often a symbol of love, and portrays an everlasting beauty. And for Emily, the “rose” clearly defines something sacred. It is symbolizes the love between Emily and Homer Barron, and Homer Barron was Emily’s only “rose”.Ⅳ. The Symbol of the Small Town.Most of Faulkner’s works are set in the American South with his emphasis on the southern subjects and consciousness. In the short story, the small town does not only reveal the social and economic history of Y oknapatawpha Country, but also symbolizes the social and economic history of the south.Ⅴ. The Symbol of Homer Barron.Homer Barron who came from the north represented the Y ankee attitudes toward the Griersons and also toward the entire south. He was very adaptable to change. So he symbolizes the north and the next generation with its more modern ideas.Ⅵ. The Symbol of the Negro-Tobe.Although Faulkner doesn’t write a lot about him, he is not a nobody. Because of the slavery system, Tobe lives a walking corpse life and spends his time quietly. He has no freedom of speech and action, so he talked to no one, probably not even to Emily, for his voice had grown harsh and rusty, as if from disuse. As matter of fact, we can say, the Negro suffered from aphasia under the long pressure. And only after Emily d ied, did the Negro become freemen. So Emily’s death symbolizes the collapse of the old tradition, and the disappearance of Tobe symbolizes the disintegration of Keeping Slavery System.。

河北师范大学高等教育自学考试本科毕业论文题目：艾米莉的悲惨命运——福克纳的《献给艾米丽的玫瑰》中艾米莉的悲惨命运成因准考证号：010*********考生姓名：曹丽珍考生所在市：石家庄市导师姓名：姬生雷专业：英语完成日期：2011年2月29日Emily’s Tragic FateAn Analysis of the Causes of Emily’s Tragedy inFaulkner’s A Rose for EmilyBYCAOLIZHENProf. JI SHENGLEI , tutorSubmitted to the B.A. Committee in PartialFulfillment of the requirements for the degreeOf Bachelor of Arts in the English DepartmentOf Hebei Normal UniversityFebruary 29 2011摘要威廉·福克纳被公认为美国南方文艺复兴的最杰出代表和美国20世纪最伟大的小说家。

《献给艾米莉的玫瑰》是他最著名的短篇小说，小说刻画了一副南方没落贵族的生存状态，并由此来分析女主人公艾米莉的悲惨命运。

主要通过三方面来分析：社会历史文化背景因素、艾米莉的家庭的因素和艾米莉自身的因素。

关键字：艾米莉的悲惨命运社会历史文化因素家庭因素自身因素AbstractWilliam Faulkner is regarded as one of the leading American authors of the Twentieth Century and the leading representative of “Southern Literature”. A Rose for Emily is the most famous short story of Faulkner’s. This short story draws a picture of the living conditions of the declined nobles there and intends to make a brief analysis and explores the causes of Emily’s tragic fate through three aspects: Emily herself; her family; social and cultural and historical factors.Key Words: Emily’s Tragic Fate; Social and cultural and historical factors; the cause of Emily’s family; the cause of Emily herself.Contents Introduction (1)Chapter Ⅰ social, cultural and historical causes (2)A. William Faulkner and his achievement (2)B. Tragic color and southern plot (3)Chapter Ⅱ Cause of Emily’s family (5)Chapter Ⅲ Cause of Emily’s personality (6)Conclusion (8)Notes (10)Bibliography (11)IntroductionWilliam Faulkner is regarded as one of the leading American writers in the literary history of the United States. And most of his works are set in the American South, with his emphasis on the Southern subjects and consciousness. At all his heroes turn out to be tragic. They are tragic because they are prisoners of the past, or of the society, or of social and moral taboos, or of their own introspective personalities.A Rose for Emily is one of the most significant achievements as his masterpiece. It keeps him unparalleled position in the field of American literature. It is Faulkner’s first short story published in 1930. Set in the town of Jefferson in Yoknapatawpha, the story focuses on Emily Grierson, an eccentric spinster who refuses to accept the passage of time. or the inevitable change and loss that accompanies it.A Rose for Emily tells an affecting but horrible love story in a southern town of American. An unnamed narrator details the strange circumstances of Emily’s life and her odd relationships with her father, who thought that insulation is the best protection for Emily and controlled and manipulated her. Then she fell in love with a northerner——the Yankee road worker Homer Barron. From the townspeople’s gossip, the romance between Homer and her is bound to be tragic because the marriage between the two at last became impossible. When Homer Barron is not heard from again, and is assumed to have returned north. Though she does not commit suicide, the townspeople of Jefferson continue to gossip about her and her eccentricities, citing her family’s history of mental illness. She is heard from less and less, and rarely ever upstairs room she hides all day with the corpse of Homer Barron, which explains the horrid stench that emits from Miss Emily’s house.Emily is typical of those in Faulkner’s Yoknapatwapha stories who are the symbols of the Old south but the prisoners of the past. Emily’s pathetic tragedy can be attributed to several reasons, including her domineering father, her deformed personality, and her conflict with the surrounding environment, etc. However the most fundamental and devastating element that causes her tragedy is the Southern past.Chapter ⅠSocial, Cultural and Historical Causes A.William Faulkner and his achievementFaulkner was born in New Albany, Mississippi, and raised in nearly Oxford, and lived in there almost all his life. He was born into a southern family with a fairly long tradition. Maybe this is the most important of all the influences that made him what he became: a leading figure in American literature. In 1950, he was awarded the Nobel Prize for the anti-racist Intruder in the Dust.As we all know, Faulkner is one of the most important representatives in Southern Renaissance. Most of his works are set in the American South, especially the small region in Northern Mississippi, Yokanapatawpha County, which is actually an imagined place based on Faulkner's childhood memory about the place where he grew up, the town of Oxford in his native Lafayette County. With his rich imagination, Faulkner turned the land, the people and the history of the region into a literary creation and a mythical kingdom. The Yokanapatawpha stories deal with the aristocrats, the new rich, the poor whites, the blacks and the historical period is from the Civil War up to the 1920s when the First World War broke out. As a result, Yokanapatawpha County has become an allegory or a parable of the Old South, with which Faulkner has managed successfully to show a panorama of the experience and consciousness of the whole southern society.Among all the Yokanapatawpha stories A Rose for Emily, is one of the most significant achievements as his masterpiece. A Rose for Emily, a short story, tells an affecting but horrible love story in a southern town of America. An unnamed narrator details the strange circumstance of Emily's life and her odd relationship with her father, who thought that isolation is the best protection for Emily and controlled her. After her father died, she fell in love with a northerner (the Yankee, a road worker), Homer Barron. From the townspeople's gossip, the romance between Homer and Emily is bound to be a tragedy because the marriage between the two at last becomes impossible. Desperately, Emily killed her love and kept his body 40 years. Since then, Emily isolated herself from outside world and lived lonely in her house until her death.B.the social, historical and cultural factorsAmerican South has its unique history and culture. Before the Civil War, the Southerners enjoy a rich life of slavery and elegant aristocratic civilization. However, the Civil War not only destroyed the slavery economy which the southerners lived on,but also ruined the ideology based on the material foundation. The post-war South experienced the great change from flourishing to declining.Emily is one of the typical character lived in this transitional period. At that time, on the one hand, the Southerners had realized that everything before, the war has gone with the wind. But, on the other hand, in order to remain the last glory, they tried their best to uphold the old value, and held back the traditional customs and cared about the depressed aristocratic descendants. Emily is one of the representatives of those people. In the eyes of town people, Emily was regarded as the symbol of the old south, and the southern aristocratic“monument”. The novel mentioned her like idol twice. One is“As they recrossed the lawn, a window that had been dark was lighted and Miss Emily sat in it, the light behind her, and her upright torso motionless as that of an idol.”(1)The other one is，“Like the carven torso of an idol in a niche, looking or not looking at us, we could never tell which.”(2)The two descriptions make her so mysterious like a god or a monument which were prayed by the whole town.Miss Emily, while alive, remains“Not only a tradition, a duty, and a care, a sort of hereditary obligation upon the town,but also a communal property and the centre of public speculation. ”(3) To fully understand the tragedy that Miss Emily’s life incorporate, we must first examine the environment in which she is brought up. Born of noble lineage, she is addressed by the town’s people and chivalrously sheltered from the “gross, teeming world”and the “humanized daily life of reality by such old-fashioned male figures as Judge Steven, Colonel Sartoris, the may, and her father. Unwilling to humiliate an aristocratic descendant with the bleak prospect of starvation and poverty, the kind-hearted Colonel fabricates some unconvincing story of her father’s contribution. So“The mayor remitted her taxes, the dispensation dating from the death of her father on into perpetuity .”(4)Emily was a representative of the Southern tradition and the Southern aristocratic families---arrogant, cold, standing high above others. She was the connection of the town people with the old Southern tradition. So“when Miss Emily Grierson died, our whole town went to her funeral: the men through a sort of respectful affection for a fallen monument, the women mostly out of curiosity to see the inside of her house.”(5)For the town people, she was the symbol of the old times, and her death signified the fall of monument---the fall of the old tradition.In the eyes of the whole town, no matter Miss Emily is alive or has been died. Miss Emily was set as a monument, the symbol of a tradition, a class, a way of life and a southern fair maiden. She was born into the noble white declining family. Though the family was not as rich in material life as before, they stubbornly tried to deep the fame of the noble family. Mr. Grierson in his life time prevented any town youth from marrying her daughter, for the young men were not from a distinguished family like the Grierson. As the town people commented,“the Grierson held themselves a little too high for what really were. None of the young men were quite good enough to Miss Emily and such.”Therefore, when Emily fell in love with Homer Barron,“A Northerner, a day laborer” (6)“Some of the ladies began to say that it was a disgrace to the town and a bad example to the young people” (7)So they prevented her from living with Homer through the Baptist minister and even the two female cousins.Besides, let’s take a look at Homer Barron.“A big, dark, ready man, with a big voice and eyes lighter than his face, the little boys would follow in groups to hear him cuss the niggers, and the niggers singing in time to the rise and fall of picks. Pretty soon he knew everybody in town. Whenever you heard a lot of laughing anywhere about the square, Homer Barron would be in the centre of the group” (8) He is a healthy and optimistic man and comes from the north. He not only has a different character, but also has different basis. Barron, a Yankee, “with niggers and mules and machinery,” is a symbol of the industrial North and its value. In paragraph two of section one, there is vivid picture about the serenity and elegance of Miss Emily’s neighborhood which has been destroyed by obvious symbols of mechanization: the cotton gin and gasoline pumps. And Homer’s construction company coming to the town according to “the construction”further implies his torrid fact that the North expanded its force to the South after winning the Civil War. But Emily is the symbol of tradition. So the failing of their love is an inevitable finding.Because Emily was located in a high position, and she was the representative of the old generation, they were unwilling to admit the decay of the past society. They hoped that the time stay in the past for ever. Miss Emily lived in her past life. She refused to accept the new life. All of these made a foundation for her tragic fat.Chapter ⅡCause of Emily’s FamilyEmily is the last generation of Griersons. We could see the celebrated position of the Griersons from Emily’s house. As mentioned in the novel,“ It was a big, squarish frame house that had once been white, decorated with cupolas and spires and scrolled balconies in the heavily light some style of the seventies, set on what had once been our most select street。

When Miss Emily’s father died, it got about that the house was all that was left to her. Miss Emily couldn’t believe it and cut her hair.The town had just let the contracts for paving the sidewalks, and in the summer after her father's death they began the work. And here came a foreman named Homer Barron. Then Miss Emily and Homer Barron were in love. People in the town thought she would marry him. But Homer himself had remarked--he liked men, and it was known that he drank with the younger men in the Elks' Club--that he was not a marrying man. People in the town learned that Miss Emily had been to the jeweler's and ordered a man's toilet set in silver, with the letters H. B. on each piece. Two days later they learned that she had bought a complete outfit of men's clothing, including a nightshirt, and people believed that they were married.And then Miss Emily was seen buying poisons, people thought that she was going to kill herself. Three days later, Homer Barron was back in town. A neighbor saw the Negro man admit him at the kitchen door at dusk one evening. And that was the last time people saw him.Some people complained to the mayor that there was a bad smell from Miss Emily’s home. So the mayor and another 3 member of Board of Aldermen broke open the cellar door and sprinkled lime there, and in all the outbuildings. Miss Emily saw them. After a week or two the smell went away. In 1894, the mayor remitted her taxes, the dispensation dating from the death of her father on into perpetuity. When the next generation became mayors and aldermen, this arrangement created some little dissatisfaction. On the first of the year they mailed her a tax notice, but Miss Emily replied a note without comment. So they had to visit her, but were driven out by her.Daily, monthly, yearly, each December people sent her a tax notice, which would be returned by the post office a week later, unclaimed.Thus she passed from generation to generation, and so she died in one of the downstairs rooms. The whole town went to her funeral. Already people knew that there was one room in that region above stairs which no one had seen in forty years, and which would have to be forced. They waited until Miss Emily was decently in the ground before they opened it. When they entered the room they saw the man lay in the bed. And they found that Miss Emily slept with the corpse every night before she died.。