《伤心咖啡馆之歌》中艾米莉亚的形象与悲剧命运探析

The Analysis of Amelia’s Image and Tragic Life in The Ballad of Sad Café

卡森·麦卡勒斯的作品《伤心咖啡馆之歌》塑造了一位雌雄难辨的主人公形象,这种形象的塑造不仅与时代变迁密切相关,而且与作者本人的性别诉求联系紧密,麦卡勒斯以艾米莉亚的形象与悲剧命运寓意现代化物质文明发展的同时,老旧观念存在滞后性,借此呼吁现代文明与性别自由的观念。

The work of Carson McCullers,The Ballad of Sad Café,depicts the protagonist with ambiguous gender.However,this kind of ambiguity,to some extent,has the close relationship with social background and sexual ambivalence of the author herself.Carson demonstrates the figure and tragic fate to indicate conflict between the development of material civilization in modern society and the traditional rotten ideology.Carson,by describing the unenlightened ideology,appeals to the necessity of gender freedom in modern society.