《风雨哈佛路》中的双喻解析

Interpretation of Metaphor and Metonymy in Breaking Night

美国小说《风雨哈佛路》讲述了一个贫民窟女孩经历人生的各种苦难,克服重重困难走进哈佛的励志故事。小说是作家莉丝·默里的自传体作品,同时美国的社会结构、意识形态和普通民众的生活状态也在小说中得到充分展现。作者以《风雨哈佛路》中的隐喻和转喻为切入点,通过探讨小说中污水、眼盲、学校的转喻和隐喻的具体内涵,分析作品展现了美国底层社会的真实面目以及民众的真实生活,彰显出抓住机会、努力奋斗以获取平等、幸福生活的美国精神。

American novel,Breaking Night,elaborates an inspiring story of a girl in the slum goes through loads of hardship and then is enrolled by Harvard. The novel is the autobiography of the author,Liz Murray,in addition presenting American social structure,ideology,and ordinary people’s life with metaphor and metonymy. The paper focuses on interpretation of these two rhetorical devices,exploring the filthy water,blindness and school’s connotation by metonymy and metaphor,to uncover the real life of American people at the bottom and American spirit,grabbing opportunity,striving and achieving equality.