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1、-Summary of A Rose for Emily-第 2 页Summary of “A Rose for Emily” In his short story “A Rose for Emily”, William Faulkner tells the life and death of Miss Emily Grierson.The story begins with the description of Miss Emilys funeral. Town people all came to her house: men out of respects and women for c

2、uriosity. There had been no one around Miss Emily for many years except a negro servant. Miss Emily, whose life was manipulated by her father, was the last descendent of the old noble Grierson family. After her fathers death, Miss Emily was crushed. The towns mayor freed her from all taxes because h

3、er father had loaned money to the town. But the next generation dissatisfied with this tradition. The new mayor wrote to Miss Emily himself and a group of Aldermen even came to her house, but all of them were refused. Miss Emily once hung around with a Yankee named Homer Barron who loved free life a

4、nd had no intention to settle down . One day Miss Emily went to the druggist to get some poison without providing any reason. People thought she was going to kill herself, but she did not die. Instead, people later found that Miss Emily was deserted by Homer Barron who had gone away. Because he had

5、not been seen again. Since then, Miss Emily had been living a completely estranged life. One of the few links with the outer world was that once a foul smell developed from the high and mighty Grierson. Some people had to cross Miss Emilys lawn and sprinkled lime there. The foul went away weeks later. However, now, people could look around her old, dusty and smelly house. They opened her room which had been enclosed for a very long time. Astonishingly, they found the fleshless dead body of Homer Barron: it had been hidden by Miss Emily on her bed for decades of years.