约翰·契弗《乡下丈夫》中的意象解读

An Interpretation of the Images in John Cheever's The Country Husband

契弗在《乡下丈夫》中有意植入了一系列战争意象、神话意象和田园意象,这些意象充满了对爱欲、混乱、人的自然状态的指涉。对这些意象背后寓意的解读,昭示出契弗对爱欲与文明的思考及其对战后美国社会机械、被动式理想主义的微妙的批判。

In his short story The Country images of war, myth, and pastoral that allude Husband, John Cheever intentionally implants to eros, chaos and natural state. The reading of these images reveals that Cheever reflects on the tension between eros and civilization and delicately critiques the mechanical and passive idealism in America after the WWII.