客観と主観の狭間で : ミニーとエミリーの場

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William Faulkner created the grand fictional world centered on Jefferson, Yoknapatawpha County, Mississippi, sublimating his own little postage stamp of native soil into apocrypha. This paper aims to focus on the cosmic space shaped by Faulkner in his works and examine the relationships between the characters and their places where they live. It seems that understanding those relationships is an effective way to reveal the characters' identity and make it clear how the characters live with themselves and the world. This paper discusses the issue through his two short stories, "A Rose for Emily" and "Dry September," both of which depict two women who committed a murder directly or indirectly. The relationships between the characters and their places will be measured through two factors, time and space, which constitute the places. The axis of time will reveal what kind of time or history the characters live in, and the axis of space will specify the location where the characters live. Those two factors will illustrate the relations clearly from multiple points of view and detect the places where the characters do live, find the meaning of their existence, and establish their identity.