《献给爱米丽的一朵玫瑰花》中的爱米丽本来可以生活得很幸福,但长期的精神压抑,欲望得不到正常的实现,终于精神崩溃,杀死了自己的爱人。作者这样的安排有他自己独到的设想,也表达了他对故乡的特殊而复杂的感情。本文将采用精神分析学的方法,以爱米丽的经历为主要线索,从个体人物的碎片中理解人类整体的困境。 Emily, in “A Rose for Emily,” could have lived a very happy life, but her long-term depression and its lack of normal fulfillment of her desires eventually collapsed and killed her lover. The arrangement of the author has his own original ideas and also expresses his special and complicated feelings about his hometown. This article will adopt the method of psychoanalysis and Emily’s experience as the main clue to understand the plight of humanity as a whole from the fragments of individual characters.