献给艾米丽的一朵玫瑰花时间轴情节分析plot手稿.docx

Thanks to my partners excellent introduction to the author. Now lets come to the plot.As we all know that the story is told in flashback. (切) But now let us have a look at the time line. P3这个故事大约发生在19世纪50年代至20世纪30年代南北战争前后About 1855: Miss Emily is born to the richest family in town.P41861-1865: the American Civil War breaks out.P51870:Mr.Grierson, Miss Emilys Father, has the family house built in Gothic revival style.P6 Para.26 About 1886: Emilys father dies; Emilys inheritance is only the house; she is over 30.P7 Para.30 About 1887: Homer Barron, Northern construction foreman, arrives; he and Emily fall in love.P8 Para.47 About 1888: people never see Homer Barron anymore; people notice the strange smell of the house.P9 Para.14 About 1919: Colonel Sartoris dies.他就是那个前任镇长，豁免艾米丽的税的人。P10 Para.4 About 1927-1928: Emily refuses to pay any taxes, and then the tax delegation visited Emily.P11Para1. About 1929-1930: Emily dies at the age of 74. The whole town go to her funeral.Now, let learn about the story part by part.请同学们翻到书34页。Lets come to part one.P12小说的第一段开始就描述了艾米丽的死亡，when Emily died, our whole town went to her funeral.这里作者设置了一个悬念：为什么全镇的人都去参加葬礼呢？然后作者又回答：男人们，他们怀着敬慕之情参加葬礼，女人们怀着好奇之心参加葬礼这里却有设置了悬念为什么男人仰慕，女人好奇呢？女人想去看多年没人进去过的房子：爱米丽家的那栋房子。虽有破败，却依然那么傲然，残破之中风韵犹存。这里表面上是写房子实际上却是写的艾米丽。然后第三段第一句，部分解答了为什么男人好奇。Alive, Miss Emily had been a tradition, a duty, and a care; a sort of hereditary obligation upon the town生前，爱米丽小姐代表着一个传统、一种职责；她既是人们关注的目标，也是全镇传承下来对她应尽的义务。然后自然地讲到前镇长豁免了她的税因此艾米丽不愿交税，第二代镇长议员对此不满，登门造访见到她后又失败的经历。(这里又体现了一种新旧观念的冲突)而她拒绝交税的理由，同学们看到第14段，她说：“找萨特里斯上校要去，杰斐逊时，我无须纳税，”而萨特里斯上校已经死了将近十年了。而这里体现了她活在自己的世界不愿意接受变化。P13Now, lets come to part two. 这个部分主要讲了两个事情。第一个是艾米丽的房子里散发出难闻的味道，人们通过一个会议决定派人偷偷潜入她家撒石灰除臭。第二个讲的是人们认为她父亲的死亡至少会让她懂点人情世故，可是她却向来参加葬礼的人说她父亲并没有死。（从这里我们也可以看到父亲对她根深蒂固的影响）P14Part three.请同学翻到第38页，这部分主要讲了艾米丽和赫默之间的纠葛。艾米丽爱上了来这儿修路的北方劳工赫默。这时，尽管人们认为她已堕落（贵族与劳工之间的身份差别），她却依然高昂着头，就像她买砒霜时一样高昂着头。同学们可以看到第40页的41段。药剂师朝下看着她。艾米丽挺直着身，回敬了他一眼，那脸绷得像凿出来的石板。还有42段，药剂师说要说明买药用途时，艾米丽小姐目不转睛地盯着他，头向后仰着，双眼正视着他，直到药剂师移开目光，转身拿砒霜包好。这里又体现了艾米丽的倔强、冷峻、孤傲和对法律的不削一顾。P15然后是第四部分，因为人们认为她已堕落，请来了艾米丽的堂姐妹们。但人们得知爱米丽准备了一切结婚用品也为她高兴起来，因为人们认为格里尔逊家族虽然堕落了一个爱米丽，家族所代表的传统并未因为爱米丽的堕落而消失，毕竟还有爱米丽的堂姐妹。后来赫默随着修路工程的结束走了，人们认为他回去准备婚礼了，一周后艾米丽的堂姐妹们走了，后来人们见到赫默从厨房的门进入了艾米丽家。然后再也没有见过赫默了。而自从最后一个学画的孩子离开艾米丽家后，艾米丽家的前门再也没有打开过，她也不愿意装免费邮箱。（没有社交活动，和小镇人们隔离）就像文中51段最后一句说的那样，她始终保持着高贵傲然，临危不惧，性格倔强，镇定自如，怪僻乖张。而她就这样死了。P16Part five：最后这部分作者又写回现在的时间，艾米丽死了，大家都来参加她的葬礼，葬礼后人们踹开了一间40年没人进去过的屋子，在这里，人们发现了失踪已久的赫默的尸体。在尸体旁边的枕头上，人们发现有人头压过的痕迹，然后人们在枕头上发现了长长的铁灰色头发。作者在结尾处把读者引向小说的高潮处，并突然结束。让读者回味无穷。P17In conclusion, the article probably describes a familys fate in a town in the south of America after the civil war. Emilys father drives away all the men who pursue her and deprives her rights of pursuing happiness in order to maintain their familys dignity. After her father dies, Emily falls in love with Homer Barron, a Northern laborer who comes to the town as a contractor to pave the sidewalks. P18But Emily still not gets rid of her fathers influence and the bondage of the dignity of the family. When she finds Homer doesnt mean to start a family with her, he is poisoned with arsenic. Since then, Emily closes her door and lives in isolation in the house, and sleeps with the corpse in about 40 years. Only until she dies