A rose forEmily 写作技巧英文版 武汉大学

1、WRITING SKILLS of A Rose for Emily1. Story StructurePart I: Emily's death; She pays no taxes.Part II: The strange smelling of Emily's house; Emily's father passed awayPart III: Love with Homer; Emily buy poison Part IV: The Emily's old age; Emily's deathPart V: Emily's funera

2、l; People found the corpse（尸体）2. Figurative languageSimile（明喻） Her eyes, lost in the fatty ridges of her face, looked like two small pieces of coal pressed into a lump of dough.Personification（拟人） But garages and cotton gins had encroached and obliterated even the august names of that neighborhood;

3、only Miss Emily's house was left, lifting its stubborn and coquettish decay above the cotton wagons and the gasoline pumps-an eyesore among eyesores.3.Narrative techniques-重点部分Ø Suspense （悬念） I think the writing skill the author use most is “suspense”, at the beginning of the novel there ar

4、e several questions we cannot get through , e.g. why the whole town went to her funeral ? What the “ fallen monument represent for ? Why the women were full of curiosity to the inside of her house ? What exactly was in Emily”s house ? With so many questions we have to deal with , we are full of inte

5、rests and curiosity to read the following text and find the answers.And at the other parts of the text , there are suspenses as well ,e.g. why the house of noble Emily send out bad smell ? Is the arsenic(砒霜) really for mice ？Ø Symbol It seems that a teem is going to give us a detail explanation

6、 .Here we just give a brief introduction.The text have an unique title“A Rose for Emily”,but the true flowerrose does not appear from the beginning to the end .This is a symbol. I think the “rose” have severe symbols, e.g.a) Love . Emily did not get Homer”s true love, but the author want to give a “

7、rose ” for her ,showing humanistic emotion .b) Emily herself. As the present of the old society ,she is a rose full of thorns.(带刺的玫瑰)Emily is the symbol of south traditional civilization and Puritan culture（清教文化）. Homer is the symbol of the capitalist class.Ø Chronological disorder (时序倒错法)text

8、order :Death of 74-year- Emily-She refused to pay taxes.-The smell from her house .-Her exceptional perform after her father”s death .-She fell in love with Homer and then Homer disappeared .-She bought arsenic(砒霜).-Death of 74-year- Emily.The exact order : Her exceptional perform after her father”s

9、 death .-She refused to pay taxes. -She fell in love with Homer and then Homer disappeared . -She bought arsenic(砒霜). -The smell from her house . - Death of 74-year-old Emily.The beginning is in harmony with the end . This disorder makes the plot complicated and confusing(扑朔迷离) , significantly highl

10、ight the love of Emil y, intensively criticize the essence of south traditional civilization based on slavery and Puritan culture. Ø Unique detailsThe most important clue of the mouder is the hair of Emily. “The hair of Emily”appear many times in the text as follows :a) After her father,s death

11、 , “her hair was cut short, making her look like a girl, with a resemblance to those angels in colored church windows.”b) After Homer,s leaving 6 monthes, “she had grown fat and her hair was turning gray. During the next few years it grew grayer and grayer until it attained an even pepper-and-salt i

12、ron-gray. Up to the day of her death at seventy-four it was still that vigorous iron-gray, like the hair of an active man.”c) After her death “She died in one of the downstairs rooms, in a heavy walnut bed with a curtain, her gray head propped on a pillow yellow and moldy with age and lack of sunlig

13、ht. ”d) The last sentence about the death of Homer “we saw a long strand of iron-gray hair(near the body)”The changing of her hair little by little corresponding to the declination of the noble and the civilization of old society. Ø Unique narrative perspective(叙述视角)Usually we use first person “I or me” as a narrator in a novel, while the author employed a smart narrative perspective- First Person Plural(第一人称复数) “we or us ” . “I” represent a single one ,while “we” represent large amounts of people f