A rose for Emily----献给艾米丽的玫瑰

Representative works
The Sound and the Fury《喧哗与骚动》 Sanctuary《圣殿》 Absalom, Absalom!《押沙龙，押沙龙！》 Go Down, Moses《去吧，摩西》
Dry September 《干燥的九月》
The Sound and the Fury《喧哗与骚动》
• After the death of her father, Emily, who had nothing, soon fell in love with Homer(黑默), the Yankee foreman（北方佬工头） who had come to the town to build the railroad. But Emily could not get rid of the family dignity and the influence of her father.
Notable works: The Sound and the Fury《喧哗与 骚动》 As I Lay Dying《我弥留之际》 Light in August《八月之光》 Go Down. Moses 《去吧，摩西》
Notable awards: Nobel Prize in Literature 1949 Pulitzer Prize for Fiction 1954, 1963
:
• The use of metaphor (暗喻的使用) • Stream of consciousness（意识流） • Multi-angle narrative technique （多角度叙事） • Characters complex psychological changes,
delicate emotions, clever words （人物的复杂
Novels----The Early Period (1924-1929) ·1926 Soldiers' Pay《军饷》 •·1927 Mosquitoes《蚊群》 •·1929 Sartoris《萨托里斯》 •·1929 The Sound and the Fury《喧哗与骚 动》（The Most Celebrated Novel）
•·19ห้องสมุดไป่ตู้8 The Unvanquished《不败者》
•·1939 If I Forget Thee Jerusalem (The Wild Palms/Old Man)《野棕榈》 •·1940 The Hamlet《村子》 •·1942 Go Down, Moses《去吧，摩西》
• Novels-----The Third Period (1942-1962) •1948 Intruder in the Dust《闯入坟墓的人》 •·1951 Requiem for a Nun《修女安魂曲》 •·1954 A Fable《寓言》Won Pulitzer Prize •·1962 The Reivers《掠夺者》Won Pulitzer Prize
1954---- the Bear 1963---- the Reivers
Yoknapatawpha 约克纳帕塔法世系
Most of these stories take place in the fictional county of yoknapatawpha, known as the " lineage."The series is about several generations of families from different social classes in the county and Jefferson town, and features more than 600 characters from before the revolutionary war to after the second world war. The main characters appear alternately in his different works, which is actually a history of the changes of American southern society.
A rose for Emily
----by William Faulkner
1.The Author 2.The Background 3.The Plot and Characters 4.The Themes 5.The Techniques
William Faulkner
Born: September 25, 1897 Died: July 6, 1962 (aged 64)
Character--Miss Emily
• Emily is a poor victim(受害者). It was her immediate family that made her a recluse（隐 居者）. Perhaps she knew that others cared for her, but in her closed feelings she intended to reject this limited care, even if it was the feeling she needed most. In fact, Emily has many valuable things. If she can open her heart, her life will be as bright and beautiful as a rose. The rose of the title is also a satire on Emily's life.
The setting:
The novel takes place in Jefferson, a small town in the south after the civil war.
• The Grierson family(格里尔森家族) still maintained a lofty family sense after the defeat of the south. Its patriarch（族长）, Emily‘s father, was a man with a serious patriarchal tendency(父权倾向). In order to maintain his so-called rank and dignity, he drove away all the men who loved Emily when his daughter was young, depriving her of the right to happiness.
•Poetry: •·1924The Marble Faun《大理石牧神》 （The first book of poems）
•Novels----he Creative Period (1930-1942)
•1930 As I Lay Dying《我弥留之际》 •·1931 Sanctuary《圣殿》 •·1932 Light in August《八月之光》 •·1935 Pylon《塔门》 •·1936 Absalom, Absalom!《押沙龙，押沙 龙！》
1. The plot 2. Writing Techniques
He uses of stream of consciousness to deeply explore the inner world of the characters; He is good at using various artistic techniques from different angles to highlight the connection between history and real life. Myth model 3. Creation background
Share a bed with Homer’s dead body
Character--- Miss Emily
She rejects all the changes. She could have a better life after her father’s death. However, she doesn’t get out of the tower her father built for her. On the contrary, she builds another one, and locks her soul.
• When she found out that Homer had no intention of starting a family with her, she poisoned him with arsenic（砒霜）, thinking that only in this way could she keep her love and reputation（名誉）. From then on, Emily lived an isolated life in the dilapidated（破旧，荒废的） and closed house and Shared a bed with the dead body for 40 years, until she died. The towns people discovered the shocking secret at Emily's funeral.
The reason why he won the Nobel Prize ----for his powerful and unmatched contribution to contemporary American fiction. He is one of the most influential writers in the history of American literature. He wrote 19 novels , more than 120 short stories and some poems. Pulitzer Prize for Fiction