新旧思想之间的抉择:奥康纳笔下的南方青年

Between New and Old Ideologies:Young Southerners in O'Connor's Fiction

弗兰纳里.奥康纳刻画的南方青年和她自己有着多方面的类似,都接受过较好的教育,对社会变迁有着清醒的认识,相对容易接受新生事物和新潮思想,但南方腹地的成长经历和上辈思想的潜移默化,使得他们难以成为彻头彻尾的自由主义者和变革支持者,他们需要承受新旧两种思想的冲突带来的痛苦,必须学会跳出现存的困境去适应和融入新的社会运行体制。

The young Southerners in Flannery O＇Connor＇s fiction are very much alike the author herself. They are rather well educated, keen aware of the social change and open-minded for new things and fresh ideas. However, thanks to their growth in the Deep South and the imperceptible influences from their parents, they can hardly become thorough liberals and reform supporters. Enduring the mental torture caused by the contradiction between new and old ideologies, they have to free themselves from the existing dilemma so as to get accommodated to the new social institutions.