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08110 Sun Jie The Funeral of Love A Rose for Emily , written by William Faulkner, is a short story about the life and death of Miss Emily Grierson. William Faulkner once said, “A Rose for Emily was an allegorical title; the meaning was, here was a woman who had had a tragedy, an irrevocable tragedy and nothing could be done about it, and I pitied her and this was a salute . . . to a woman you would hand a rose.” After I read the short but attractive story, the love tragedy impressed me very much. A Rose for Emily is Faulkners the most widespread short story. With gothic horror and mysterious plots, it tells us a distorted love tragedy. It shows the influence of the past on people; and mold an image of a girl who never let love go. At the beginning of the story, the author described Miss Emily’s funeral: “When Miss Emily Grierson died, our whole town went to her funeral”. They went there not only for respectful affection, but also for curiosity. For a long period of time, Miss Emily is a mysterious and arrogant woman. At the end of the story, the author revealed the truth: Homer Barron was killed in Miss Emily ’s room above stairs, a room decked and furnitured as for bridal. What happened between Miss Emily and Homer Barron that night? Was Homer Barron really a homosexual? Is this the real reason that he was killed in a bridal room that Miss Emily prepared? Perhaps the truth of the tragedy had gone with Miss Emily. Her 74-year life bore a lot about her class and status in society. For all these, she had to give up the right to love. However, she was not willingly to accept. She had no choice but to kill her lover. Then, the love might never go. The funeral took not only Emily’s life, but also the existence of her distorted love. 1