威廉·福克纳的短篇小说《献给爱米丽的玫瑰》中女主人公爱米丽是一位与世隔绝、不顾现实变迁而一味坚持自己独有生活方式的人。她倨傲高贵,又充满了对负心爱人的无情报复。结合美国内战之后美国南方重建的历史事实,爱米丽是那个特殊时代的牺牲品,是一个已经异化的边缘人形象,而且她还是一个生活在过去的囚徒。 In William Faulkner’s short story The Rose for Emily, Emilion is an isolated man who insists on his own way of living despite the reality. She is proud and noble, full of relentless vengeance on the revenge. Combining the historical facts of the reconstruction of the South in the United States after the American Civil War, Emily was the victim of that particular era, the image of a marginalized alienated person, and she was still a prisoner living in the past.