希望在别处——试解《毕司沃斯先生的房子》中逃离的含义

Hope Is Elsewhere——To Analyze the Meaning of“Escape”In“A House for Biswas”

本文通过对“房子”在不同背景下的意义进行阐释,阐述了移民的后代急欲逃离这种没有文化依托的“无根人”状态,而得到梦想中的“房子”——即精神上完整的自我的决心和奋斗的历程。

Through analysis of different meanings of house in different conditions,this paper explains descendants of immigrants are eager to eseape from the rootless state without cultural background,and to gain the house they have longed for,i.e.a complete self.