《献给艾米莉的玫瑰》中的冲突与抗争

On Conflict and Struggle in A Rose for Emily

威廉·福克纳是美国“南方小说”的代表作家。在他的短篇小说《献给艾米莉的玫瑰》中,主人公所经历的三次冲突、其所采取的不同抗争手段以及不同的结局蕴涵着作者的创作宗旨:主人公是南方旧势力的代表人物,在代表北方的新势力逐渐占上风的南方,两种势力间发生的冲突其结果为处于强势的北方必然占上风,而处于弱势的南方必然败落。个别人物凭借旧有的特权地位只能暂缓其衰败势头,却最终摆脱不了自己灭亡的命运。

Faulkner is regarded as an outstanding writer of the Southern Stories. Most of his works are about stories of the South. His A Rose for Emily gives his readers a side view of the fall of the old southern aristocracy and the rise of the new northern adventurers. Emilyg conflicts, her ways of struggles and results of these conflicts are the main statements of this paper, in which the heroineg fatal destiny can be reasoned out, and the authort creative originality can also be realized. Emily is a member of the declining Old South, which is dominated gradually by the rising New North. Conflicts occurred between the two sides incessantly. With the help of their remnant of privileges some old characters tried hard to retard this tendency temporarily, but their fate was doomed.