迷茫·思索·选择——阿特伍德的小说《可以吃的女人》叙事视角转换研究

Confusion,Deep Thought and Choice Made——A Study of Narrative Perspective Transference in Atwood's Novel The Edible Woman

《可以吃的女人》是加拿大著名女作家玛格丽特.阿特伍德的第一部长篇小说,也是她最有代表性的作品之一。小说探讨了妇女在现代社会中的地位问题,生动展现了20世纪60年代加拿大社会知识女性的迷茫、困惑与挣扎的生存状态。文章通过细读文本,解析小说的三个章节从第一人称叙事到第三人称叙事再转回到第一人称叙事的视角转换策略,印证了这一转换过程恰恰契合了小说中女主人公玛丽安从迷失自我到思索现实再到选择人生,追寻生命价值的心灵成长历程。

The Edible Women is the world - famous Canadian novelist Margaret Atwood＇ s first novel and also one of her great masterpieces. The novel explores women＇s social status in modem society, vividly unfolding women intellectual＇s perplexing, confusing and struggling living existence in 1960s Canadian society. Through close reading, this paper interprets the narrative perspective transference in the three chapters of the novel, i. e. from the first person narration to the third person narration and back to the first person narration. It further concludes that this transference properly goes together with the heroine, Marian＇s self- growing course from losing her true self to pondering the reality and to choosing her own life and pursuing the value of life.