欧·亨利小说中的女性角色及婚姻价值观

The Female Role and Marriage Values in O·Henry's Novels

美国优秀短篇小说家欧·亨利的作品探讨了19世纪末、20世纪初美国社会转型时期的女性婚恋价值观。作家从家庭生活、择偶标准、离婚态度等几个方面从女性角度揭示了当时美国社会人们对待婚恋的价值取向,虚构、出人意料的故事结局和元小说等手段是其故事叙事的主要策略。与其他现实主义作家和自然主义作家的社会批判和人性本质弱点批判不同,欧·亨利并非以泛性论入手来描写爱情与婚姻,而常常以悲剧开始、以喜剧结束的短篇故事为载体,以动人心弦的故事情节深深打动读者。欧·亨利女性角色及其婚姻观研究,对于当下中国社会转型时期出现的婚恋观错位具有重要的价值和意义。

The American excellent short story writer ＇O ~ Henry＇s work explores the female marriage values in late 19th and early 20th century American society transition period. O · Henry reveals positive values that people treat marriage from the aspects of family life,spouse, divorce attitudes in American society. Fiction and unexpected ending to the story and meta-fiction story is the main strategy of its narrative. Different from other realistic and naturalistic writers, O · Henry often begins the novels with tragedy,but ending by comedy,with social criticism and human nature and other realist naturalist writer touching story impressed readers. The study of the female roles and marriage values in O ·Henry＇s novels has important value and significance for contemporary love and marriage values in Chinese social transition period.