A Study of Class Discrimination in A Rose for Emily From the Perspective of Western Marxist Criticism

Abstract

A Rose for Emily is a short story written by William Faulkner, an American modernist novelist, in the first half of the 20th century. This paper tries to analyze the class structure and class discrimination in the Southern United States from the perspective of Western Marxist literary criticism in the 19th to 20th centuries of the text, and further expand the thematic significance of the literary text.