《献给爱米丽的一朵玫瑰花》是福克纳的短篇小说代表作。爱米丽的悲剧集中体现了人们在社会变迁中,对南方历史文化等传统观念与价值存有的复杂心态,在生存困境下的生活方式和自我观念的冲突和撞击,体现了人们试图冲破这种生存困境的张力而又无力冲破这种张力的社会悲剧的审美机制。 “A Rose for Emily” is Faulkner’s short story masterpiece. Emily’s tragedy embodies the conflicts and clashes between the complex mentality of traditional values ​​and values ​​such as the history and culture of the South in the social changes, the way of life and the self-concept under the survival predicament, and reflects that people try to break through this The tension of living difficulties but unable to break through the tension of the social tragedy of the aesthetic mechanism.