Respect or Superiority: The Townspeople’s Feeling for Emily

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10.2991/assehr.k.201214.538How to use a DOI?

Keywords

A Rose for Emily, Four Confrontations, Incarnation of the Old South, Respect and Superiority

Abstract

The oft-quoted story “A Rose for Emily”, written by William Faulkner, tells a story of the mysterious protagonist, Emily Grierson, and her eccentric relationship with the townspeople of Jefferson in the South. This eccentric relationship is reflected in the four confrontations of this story. From these confrontations, the author of this essay concludes that the townspeople of Jefferson regard Emily as the incarnation of the Old South and have a mixed feeling of respect and superiority with Emily. This self-contradictory feeling for Emily is the reflection of their attitudes towards the Old South.

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© 2020, 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  - Ying Liu
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TI  - Respect or Superiority: The Townspeople’s Feeling for Emily
BT  - Proceedings of the 2020 3rd International Conference on Humanities Education and Social Sciences (ICHESS 2020)
PB  - Atlantis Press
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