摘要
凯瑟琳·曼斯菲尔德的很多作品都对身心遭受不幸的女性形象表达深切的同情,《布里尔小姐》就是其中具有代表性的一部。小说中的女主人公布里尔小姐独自生活在异国他乡,备受孤独的煎熬,一直渴望融入社会,但是她善意的努力却因为两位年轻恋人残暴的人性而以失败告终。本文运用心理学家亨利·泰弗尔的社会认同理论,分析了布里尔小姐所经历的从社会中的旁观者到参与者再到被抛弃者的心理变化过程。
Katherine Mansfield expresses in a great number of short stories her deep sympathy for those female characters who suffer both physically and psychologically. Miss Brill is one of her representative works. The title character Miss Brill, living alone in a foreign country, has been longing for a close relationship with the society; however, her attempts eventually end in failure because of the inhumanity on the part of two young lovers. This paper, from the perspective of Henry Tajfel＇s social identity theory, aims at analyzing Miss Brill＇s psychological change from an observer of society to a participant in society and finally to one who is abandoned by society.
