%0 Journal Article
%T Analysis of Emily¡¯s Subject Construction in <em>A Rose for Emily</em> from Jacques Lacan¡¯s Psychoanalytic Theory
%A Yiting Lei
%J Open Access Library Journal
%V 12
%N 11
%P 1-11
%@ 2333-9721
%D 2025
%I Open Access Library
%R 10.4236/oalib.1114512
%X William Faulkner, a Nobel Prize-winning author, is a highly influential figure in Southern American literature. A Rose for Emily is his Gothic short story published in 1930. This novel tells the story of Emily, a descendant of the aristocracy of the Old South, who grows up with a monstrous upbringing and is eventually driven by desire to poison her lover, Homer. The novel demonstrates the process of Emily¡¯s complete entrapment in the real world, as well as the process of Emily¡¯s subject construction. In the traditional society of the Old South, it is a common phenomenon that women suppressed by patriarchy live with a lack of subjectivity, but in the end, in the funeral of the main character Emily, she is regarded as a monument by southerners rather than a decentralized individual. This study aims to unravel the process of Emily¡¯s subject construction through Lacan¡¯s three orders theory. By exposing the oppression of patriarchy and traditional values of the Old South, it interprets Emily¡¯s ultimate alienated self.
%K A Rose for Emily
%K Subject Construction
%K Jacques Lacan
%K Three Orders
%U http://www.oalib.com/paper/6878593