Character Analysis of A Rose For Emily

DOI

10.2991/hss-26.2016.147How to use a DOI?

Keywords

Characterization, Symbol, Image.

Abstract

William Faulkner is among the greatest experimentalists of the 20th century novelists. The 1950 Nobel Prize presentation speech calls Faulkner the “unrivaled master of all living British and American novelists”. A Rose for Emily is one of his best- known short stories and is widely used in English classroom. Some people regard the story as a reflection of the dying Old South and the growing New South, which is practical and bent on industrialization. Some read the story as an allegory. By the characterization of the heroine Miss Emily and with the use of symbols and images, we can understand the relationship between the South and the North, between the past and the present, illusion and reality, permanence and change, and death and life.

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© 2016, the Authors. Published by Atlantis Press.

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This is an open access article distributed under the CC BY-NC license (http://creativecommons.org/licenses/by-nc/4.0/).

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AU  - Wenge Chang
AU  - Qianqian Che
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BT  - Proceedings of the 2016 International Conference on Humanities and Social Science
PB  - Atlantis Press
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