Author(s)

Yangyang Xu ¹

Affiliation(s)

¹ School of Foreign Languages, Beijing Forestry University, Beijing, China

Corresponding Author

Yangyang Xu

ABSTRACT

Dry September and A Rose for Emily are two of Faulkner's most famous short stories and have similarities in both content and theme. This essay starts from the concept of the image of onlookers that Chinese readers are more familiar with and then proposes the image of bystanders in two short stories. Focusing on the core events of the short stories, this essay first analyzes how the bystanders became the critics, admirers, supporters, and so-called friends of the main character, then discusses their functions as narrators, and therefore, tries to explain why Faulkner created the image of bystanders in his short stories.

KEYWORDS

William Faulkner, Dry September, A Rose for Emily, image of bystanders

CITE THIS PAPER

Yangyang Xu, Spectators and Supporters: Image of Bystanders in Faulkner's Short Stories. Lecture Notes on Language and Literature (2024) Vol. 7: 57-61. DOI: http://dx.doi.org/10.23977/langl.2024.070610.

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