三位一体的发言人——浅析短篇故事《蛋》的叙述者

Trinity in the Voice of the Narrator——A Brief Analysis of the Narrator of Egg

短篇故事《蛋》是舍伍德·安德生的杰出代表作,它深刻细致地揭露了"美国神话"骗人的实质,表达了对备受其害的广大劳动人民的极大同情。文章主要运用美国著名文学批评家 W.C.布斯的小说修辞学理论对该故事的叙述者声音进行分析,发现在叙述者的声音里还包含了另外两个声音:作者的声音和年幼叙述者的声音。通过这样一位三位一体的代言人叙述故事,既可以使作者以一个较客观全面的视角去展开故事,又可以拉近读者与人物间的距离,增加故事对读者的影响力,更加引发读者的深思。

Short story Egg is one of the masterpieces written by the renowned American novelist Sherwood Anderson. The story greatly exposes the deceptive nature and destructive impact of American Dream,and shows great sympathy for people stuck in it.In this article,famous American critic Wayne C.Booth's theory on point of view is applied to the analysis of the narrator's voice in this story.The analysis indicates that there are two more voices hidden in the voice of the narrator,that of the narrator as a child and that of the implicit author.Exploiting the trinity,in the voice of the story narrator,Anderson succeeds in developing the story from a more objective and overall angle,presenting a more comprehensive picture to the reader,and narrowing the gap between the reader and the characters.The story thus achieves greater impact on the reader,and evokes his deep meditation on life.