a rose for emily

乌英格

The novel's deep-rooted Southern conservatism and resistance to new life is an implicit theme in this essay. The essay uses a lot of details to portray the old-fashioned Emily. Emily has been persecuted by her father's old-fashioned morality since she was a child. After her father's death, her first act was to cut her hair short, and she became a symbol of the old morality in her image.
Emily not only did not acknowledge her father's death, she did not accept anything new. She refused to accept modern postal facilities - she was not allowed to put a number on the door of her house, nor to hang a post office box; she refused to acknowledge the death of Colonel Sardoris and refused to pay taxes; according to the law, anyone who bought poison had to explain its use, but she still arrogantly refused to give any explanation.
Emily wants to maintain her glorious notions of nobility, her pride in personal honor and dignity, and her Southern aristocratic ladyship, but when all this cannot withstand the fire of the booming capitalist industrial civilization, there is no other way but to actively integrate into the changed times. Emily is a stubborn and stubborn defense of the declining Southern civilization and self-isolation. And it is through Emily that Faulkner expresses the writer's own regret, regret and helplessness for the departed civilization, thus revealing the inseparable southern complex in Faulkner's soul.