a_rose_for_emily 课件概要1.ppt

Summary 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 Yankee 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 familys history of mental illness. She is heard from less and less, and rarely ever leaves her home. The townspeople even don’t know that ,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 Emilys house. Plot The plot thickens at this point with the death of her new acquired male suitor Mr. Homer Barron. After a description about Mr. Barron being a “not a marrying man” and Miss Emily psychological problem stemming from attachment, leads the reader to believe that Miss Emily may have killed Mr. Barron with the thought of, if I can’t have him no one can. This theory is compounded by Miss Emily’s purchase of rat poison for no apparent reason and an effort to make the entire town think she was married extremely obvious that suspicion only increases. Plot “Then we noticed that in the second pillow was the indentation of a head. One of us lifted something from it, and leaning forward, the faint and invisible dust dry and acrid? in the nostrils, we saw a long strand of iron-gray hair.” This passage leads the reader to believe she intentionally poisoned him or the perspective that she is so distraught by her loss she can only lay next to the withering body in total confusion. A major characteristic that contributes to the popularity