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feeling of great respect for the struggle and mankind.

(7) Hemingway hero of athletic prowess and masculinity and unyielding heroism.

(8) To master the code with the honest, the discipline, and the restrains are Hemingway Code heroes. In the general situation of his novels, life is full of tension and battles; the world is in chaos; man is always fighting desperately a losing battle. However, though life is but a losing battle, it is a struggle man can dominate in such a way that loss becomes dignity; man can be physically destroyed but never defeated spiritually. (P600---603)

8. About William Faulkner:

I. Analyses about his life and his theme:

Answer:1) His works criticizes the stratified society among the aristocrats, the new rich, the poor whites and the blacks.

2) His work shows a panorama of the experience and consciousness of the whole Southern society.

3) His works focus on the collision of the intelligent, sensitive, and idealistic protagonist/hero (Emily) with the society of the twentieth century.

4) Almost all his heroes turn out to be tragic. They are tragic because they are prisoners of the past, or the society, or some social and moral taboos, or of their own introspective personalities.

5) Faulkner suggests that society, which conditions man with its hierarchical stratification and with its laws and institutions, eliminates man’s chance of responding naturally to the experience of his existence, against this imprisoned, confused, fragmented social being is the primitive man who, not conditioned by the civilization and social institutions, accepts the life-death pattern of human existence.

6) By turning away from reality, by alienating himself from truth with his attempts to explain the inexplicable, becomes weak and cowardly, confused and ineffectual.

7) Theme of imprisonment in the past. The past that Faulkner uses in this book to set off the present is not the past of an earlier society or historical period, but the immediate past---the world of childhood, innocent and idealistic. (P612---614)

II. Analyses on Faulkner’s techniques in writing:

Answer:

1) He holds/believes in the infinite possibilities inherent in human life. Therefore a writer should observe with no judgment whatsoever and reduce authorial intrusion to the lowest minimum. The range of narrative techniques used by Faulkner is remarkable. He would never step between the characters and the reader to explain, but let the characters explain themselves and hinder as little as possible the reader’s direct experience of the work of art. (detached)

2) He deliberately broke up the chronology of his narrative by juxtaposing the past with the present.

3) Faulkner was good at presenting multiple points of view. (P615-616)

III. The character analyses about Miss Emily Grierson:

Answer:

1) She is an eccentric spinster who refuses to accept the passage of time or the inevitable change and loss that accompanies it.

2) She is the symbols of the Old South but the prisoners of the past.

3) Something about plots: Miss Emily had been a tradition, a duty, and a care; a sort of hereditary obligation upon the town, and she vanquished the people in the town, horse and foot, just as she had vanquished 16 美国文学 单选题 诗歌分析题

their fathers thirty years before about the smell. And she is the victim of the idea of her family: none of the young men were quite good enough for Miss Emily and such. Then she fell in love with a Northerner, but