MINI PROJECT: BRITISH-

AMERICAN WORK STYLE

Lecturer: Nguyễn Ngọc Thảo

Members:
1. Hoàng Thị Hải Yến
2. Hồ Thị Hoài Thu
3. Phùng Thị Hương Thảo
4. Nguyễn Thị Kim Diệu
5. Nông Thái Thùy An
 Analyze loneliness through characters
in “A Clean, Well-Lighted Place” -
Ernest Hemingway

• Student: Hoàng Thị Hải Yến

• Code:2032202010044
• Class: K202LD.NNAN01
• Course: British and American Literatures
• Lecturer: Nguyễn Ngọc Thảo
 Loneliness of the old man

•“What did he want to kill himself for?”

•“How should I know.”
•“How did he do it?”
•“He hung himself with a rope.”
•“Who cut him down?”
•“His niece.”
•...
•“He must be eighty years old.”
•“Anyway I should say he was eighty.”

Hoàng Thị Hải Yến

 “The guard will
pick him up,” one
Loneliness
of the waiter said.
soldier “What does it
matter if he gets
what he's after?”
Hoàng Thị Hải Yến
 • “Each night I am reluctant to
close up because there may be
someone who needs the café”
• "It's probably only insomnia.
Many must have it".
Loneliness of
the old waiter

Hoàng Thị Hải Yến

 A rose for Emily
-By William Faulkner

Hồ Thị Hoài Thu

 Table of Content
Introduction

Body

Conclusion

Hồ Thị Hoài Thu

01 Introduction
• William Faulkner (1897 –1962) was an
American writer known for his novels and
short stories
• He is one of the most celebrated writers
of American literature and is widely
considered the greatest writer of
Southern literature.
• “A Rose for Emily” First published on the
Forum on April 30, 1930 and collected in
this Thirteen in 1931, this is William
Faulkner's most beloved and significant
story.
• The story is centered around death and
resistance to change. Also, it reflects the
decline of Southern social tenets in the
1930s.
Hồ Thị Hoài Thu
 02 Body
The power and impact of death.
- “ she dressed as usual and with no trace of grief on her face. She
told them that her father was not dead. She did that for three
days“
- If Homer Barron doesn't choose in his own way to spend his life
with Emily, then Emily will make the decisions for him….

Hồ Thị Hoài Thu

 Control and its consequences
02 of the story
• Control and its consequences are a persistent theme
throughout the story.
• Miss Emily a slender figure in white in the background, her
father a spraddled silhouette …
• Her father's influence remained after his death

Hồ Thị Hoài Thu

 v e on w it h t he
v e th e p a st , m o
Lea o ur f u tu r e
03 pre s en t a n d w e lc om e y

- It was a big, squarish frame house that had

been once white…
- Society at that time was changing by the
minute, but Emily's house was still a symbol of
the twentieth century, still standing tall
- "I have no taxes in Jefferson.“ …
 Conclusion
- “A Rose for Emily”, repetitive motifs or symbols support
the theme, including monuments, love and death.
- Due to her fear of change, Emily is unable to let go of the
past and begins to take control of the changing aspect of
her life

Hồ Thị Hoài Thu

Thanks for your listening

Hồ Thị Hoài Thu

 Title:

The love of men

in Emily’s life
from “A rose for
Emily”
by William Faulkner
Phùng Thị Hương Thảo
 Table of Contents
Introduction

Body

Conclusion

Phùng Thị Hương Thảo

 Introduction

- William Faulkner (1897 - 1962)

- ''A Rose for Emily'' a work created in 1930

- The strange circumstances of Emily's life

- The fascinating details through the love of

the characters in the story for the main
character Emily.

Phùng Thị Hương Thảo

 Body

1 A father's domineering love for his daughter.

2 Homer Barron - A man with an exploitative love.

The pity love of Mr. Sartoris separates Emily from

3 the society.

4 Emily’s loyal servant with a secret love, the Negro

Phùng Thị Hương Thảo

 1. A father's domineering love
for his daughter.
He drove all her potential suitors away
because he did not feel like anyone was good enough
for his little girl

“We remembered all the young men her father had

driven away, and we knew that with nothing left, she
would have to cling to that which had robbed her, as
people will” The townpeople

Phùng Thị Hương Thảo

 2. Homer Barron - A man with an exploitative love.

Homer says only that he is “not a marrying man”. He

just wanted some fun

Homer’s failure to properly court and marry Emily

prompts speculation and suspicion

He carouses with younger men at the Elks Club, and the narrator
portrays him as either a homosexual or simply an eternal bachelor

The victim of her plan to keep him permanently by her side.

Phùng Thị Hương Thảo

 3. The pity love of Mr. Sartoris separates Emily
from the society.
According to the narrator,
She does not pay her
'Colonel Sartoris invented an involved
taxes so she does not
tale to the effect that Miss Emily's father also have any reason to
had loaned money to the town, which the go out or talk with the
town, as a matter of business, preferred others
this way of repaying.'

He himself indirectly separates

Emily from the society.
Phùng Thị Hương Thảo
 4. Emily’s loyal servant with
a secret love, the Negro

He helped her go out to buy things.

It seemed like he kept all the secrets about Emily even

he became helper in her crime

This kind of love had kept him doing stupid things

to help Emily to get what she wanted.

Phùng Thị Hương Thảo

 Conclusion
Her pitiful life is the result of the
influence of her father, her disappointing
lover and another men appear in her life

She never experiences true love outside

of the restrictive reigns of power.

All these factors resulted in Emily’s

decision to choose death as the only
possible means.
Phùng Thị Hương Thảo
 Thank you for listening!

Phùng Thị Hương Thảo

 The theme of “A rose
for Emily”
by William Faulkner

Nguyễn Thị Kim Diệu

 Table of Contents

01 02 03
Introduction Body Conclusion
1. Miss Emily was a
proud, self-
respecting person.
2. Miss Emily is a
woman of steadfast
will and strong
character.
3. Miss Emily was
always haunted by
the past.

Nguyễn Thị Kim Diệu

 Introduction
William Faulkner
- 1897-1962
- “The Sound and the Fury“(1929)
- “A Rose for Emily' is first published on the
Forum in 1930.
- “A Rose for Emily” retells the story of an
eccentric spinster, Emily Grierson, with the
strange circumstances of her life and her odd
relationships with her father, and her lover. After
her death, the townspeople discover that Emily
has murdered her lover and slept with his corpse
for years.
- The author has brought readers to the
fascinating details in the story by exploiting the
personality as well as the psychology of Emily's
character.

Nguyễn Thị Kim Diệu

 Body

Nguyễn Thị Kim Diệu

1. Miss Emily was a proud, self-respecting person.

- “I have no taxes in Jefferson.”

- “Perhaps he considers himself the sheriff…
I have no taxes in Jefferson.”
- “See Colonel Sartoris. I have no taxes in
Jefferson.”
- “Tobe!”… “Show these gentlemen out.”
- “I want arsenic.”.

Nguyễn Thị Kim Diệu

 1. Miss Emily was a proud, self-respecting person.
- “She did not ask them to sit. She just stood in the door…”
(Faulkner)

- “None of the young men were quite good enough for Miss
Emily and such.” (Faulkner)

Nguyễn Thị Kim Diệu

 2. Miss Emily is a woman of steadfast will and strong
character.

“She told them that her father was “She carried her head
not dead. She did that for three high enough—even
days, with the ministers calling on when we believed that
her, and the doctors, trying to she was fallen.”
persuade her to let them dispose of (Faulkner)
the body.”(Faulkner)

Nguyễn Thị Kim Diệu

 3. Miss Emily was always haunted by the past.

"She told them “the second pillow

"See Colonel was the indentation of
that her father Sartoris."... "I a head  the second
was not have no taxes in pillow was the
dead." indentation of a head”
Jefferson.. And “a long strand of
iron-gray hair”
(Faulkner)

Nguyễn Thị Kim Diệu

CONCLUSION

Nguyễn Thị Kim Diệu

 Thanks!

Nguyễn Thị Kim Diệu

 British and American Literatures
Lecturer : Nguyễn Ngọc Thảo
Student: Nông Thái Thùy An
Code: 2032202010001

The theme of the story

“A clean, well-lighted place”

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 Table of contents

1 – Introduction

2 – Themes of the story

3 – Conclusion
Nông Thái Thùy An
 1 – Introduction
Author : Ernest Hemingway

Ernest Hemingway was one of America’s best authors. He

started out writing many articles, and then even novels fro
some of his lifetime experiences. Hemingway was a great
influence on American society.
Nông Thái Thùy An
 A clean, well-lighted place 1 – Introduction

- A short story written by Ernest Hemmingway and published in Winner Take Nothing in
1933.
- The reader gets Hemingway’s message through the theme of the story that he is
pushing throughout the story.
- The short story “A Clean Well-lighted Place” by Ernest Hemingway depicts the struggle of
the old people to cope with the loneliness and despair in their live.
Nông Thái Thùy An
 2 – Themes of the story

Loneliness
1

2 Meaningless

3 The escape from nothingness

Nông Thái Thùy An

1
Loneliness
- Loneliness and old age are the common bonds that the older waiter shares with the old
man. This is manifested through the dialogue between the two waiters.
When the younger waiter boasts about his youth and confidence, the older waiter jealously
replies, “I have never had confidence and I am not young”.
- That the older waiter connects with those who are lonely or in despair when he tells
the younger waiter that ‘I am of those who like to stay late at the cafe.’
Which may further emphasis the sense of loneliness that the older waiter feels. He is glad to leave the bar behind him
aware that it is unlike the café which he knows Both the older waiter and the old man appreciate the cafe because it
provides a "clean, well-lighted place" to drink and hang out, providing an illusion of company, unlike their own homes,
where they feel their loneliness more acutely.

Nông Thái Thùy An

2 Meaningless
- The story’s setting took place at a Café in Spain. The old deaf man would come to the café
because “it was quiet and he felt the difference.” This was symbolic for the underlying
theme of nothingness.

- In the story it is unveiled that the old man does not have a wife anymore, and had try to
“[hang] himself with a rope” but his niece saw and cut him down. This definitely shows
that the old man is dealing with depression from loneliness and despair learning that his
life’s meaning is nothingness.

Nông Thái Thùy An

3 The escape from nothingness
- Earnest Hemingway focuses on the need for light and order in the lives of
two characters who suffer from loneliness brought on by their belief in
nothing.
- The young waiter s attitude is a symbol of the separation of the old man
from the rest of the world, which is too preoccupied with its own concerns.
- Nothingness is a feeling that man, no matter what his beliefs, is faced with
from time to time. However a man of religious faith can fall back on the
belief that his life is in the hands of his creator. It is comforting to know
that there is a higher power that has a master plan to life. An existentialist
must rely upon himself for a reason for living.

Nông Thái Thùy An

 3 – Conclusion
- This short story “A Clean, Well-lighted Place” somehow

progresses on the same theme: loneliness, meaningless, and

the escape from nothingness.

-These themes were well illustrated by three characters of

different walks of life, three people who see life in different

perspectives: the young waiter, the old waiter and the old-

drunk man. They have different stories to tell and only in the

clean, well-lighted cafe that their mind-sets get exposed to

the readers’ critical scrutiny.

Nông Thái Thùy An