内容摘要
It's not even past." This idea is highly visible in all Faulkner's work, and we definitely see it here, in "A Rose for Emily." Spanning approximately 74 years, this short story spins backwards and forwards in time like memory, and shows a southern town torn between the present and the past. Post-Civil War and Pre-Civil Rights, "A Rose for Emily" shows us an American South in limbo, trying desperately, with each
generation, to find a better way, a way which honors the good of the past, while coming to terms with its evils.
A Rose for Emily Visions of America Quotes Page 1 How we cite the quotes:
Citations follow this format: (Section.Paragraph)Quote #1
[…] 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. (1.2)
The narrator doesn't approve of Miss Emily or the surrounding area. As a townsperson, or people, the narrator is dissatisfied with this segment of America. What does this vision of America say to you? Quote #2
[…] he who fathered the edict that no Negro woman should appear on the streets without an apron. (1.3)
Colonel Sartoris has a nasty vision of America and what it is to be an America. In moments like this we see the story's condemnation of that old view: as readers, we don't think too kindly of Colonel Sartoris. In the 1930s, when this story was written, any stance against discrimination, however slight, represented another step towards the Civil Rights Movement of the 1960s.
Quote #3