在《纪念爱米丽的一朵玫瑰花》①中,福克纳讲述了一个以美国南北内战后为社会背景,南方贵族女性爱米丽在经历了父亲去世、爱人背弃的打击后,毒杀爱人,与尸体同眠几十年,最终死去这样一个悚然的故事。如此恐怖而“荒诞”的故事,其“真实性”受到不少学生质疑,由于对相关背景知识的隔膜,不少教师对此也不能给出“合理”的解释。有的教师在引导学生阅读该小说时,更多的只是从作品所讲述的故事情节入手来分析人物形象及其悲剧意义,没有 In “A Rose for Emily”, Faulkner recounted a story about the social background after the civil war between the North and South of the United States. Emily, a southern aristocratic woman, was poisoned after her father’s death and his lover’s abandonment. Love, sleep with the body for decades, eventually died such a haunting story. Such horror and “absurd ” story, its “authenticity ” has been questioned by many students, due to the relevant background knowledge of the diaphragm, many teachers can not give this “reasonable ” explanation. When some teachers guide students to read the novel, they only start from the story of the story to analyze the characters and their tragic significance.