试论福克纳《干旱的九月》中明妮·库珀小姐的疯癫

Miss Minnie Cooper's Madness in William Faulkner's Dry Sepember

福克纳短篇小说《干旱的九月》女主人公明妮.库珀小姐年轻的时候是小镇社交场所一朵欢蹦乱跳的火焰,出尽风头,但到了谈婚论嫁的时候却被摒弃,之后更因为她的行为与淑女标准的冲突导致她在小镇上被孤立,因而心理上受到严重压抑。同时,她生活在一个种族主义占绝对优势的文化语境里,这个语境必然导致心理与精神的干旱、病态。白人种族主义意识不但是对黑人的压迫,也是对白人人性的摧残。正是在这一特殊环境下社会与个人之间的矛盾冲突,导致了明妮小姐的精神崩溃,使她成为南方淑女神话的牺牲品。

Miss Minnie Cooper in Faulkner＇ s story Dry September is a loud flame and wins her popularity in the town＇ s social life when she solation in frustration the town because of her in her mentality. In the was young, but she is ruthlessly deserted at the age of marriage. The ifailure to live up to the standard of behavior for a lady causes extreme meantime, racism is predominant in the cultural context she lived in to lead to spiritual dryness and mental disease. The white racism is destructive to the white people＇ s mind as well as oppressive to the black. It is the conflict between the society and the individual under such special circumstances that brings Miss Minnie Cooper to the final mental collapse, rendering her a victim of Southern womanhood.