舍伍德·安德森《林中之死》中的象征意蕴

Symbols in Sherwood Anderson's Death in the Woods

舍伍德.安德森是美国著名的短篇小说家,他的《林中之死》被誉为美国最佳的短篇小说之一。在《林中之死》中安德森通过大量的象征手法的使用,给小说简单的情节赋予了丰富的内涵。论文从人与物的象征、情节的象征、颜色的象征三个方面对小说进行解读,从而揭示出安德森对社会和外部环境、人性本身以及两者之间相互关系所作的思考。

Sherwood Anderson is one of the most important novelists in the early 20th century in America, and his Death in the Woods is considered as one of the best short stories in American literature. Employing various symbols, Sherwood Anderson gives the novel profound meaning. This article categorizes these symbols into three kinds： symbols of persons and matters, symbols of plots, and symbols of colors. Through analyzing these symbols explicitly and thoroughly, this article explores Anderson＇s distinctive thinking of the environment and human nature.