试析奥康纳小说《汇流》的“隔膜”主题

Estrangement in Everything That Rises Must Converge

弗兰纳里·奥康纳是二十世纪美国南方著名女作家.以往对其作品的评论多集中于其中的暴力情节、宗教内涵及种族立场,对隔膜虽有提及,却未作深入分析.本文试图通过对其经典短篇小说<汇流>之情节、人物和部分细节、意象的阐释,以及对诱发其隔膜主题的个人因素和社会因素的分析,以期揭示出这一主题在奥康纳作品中的重要地位及其对于当代西方社会的普遍意义.

Flannery O'Connor is acknowledged to be one of the most prestigious writers in the post war American literature. Previous commentaries have been focused mostly on the themes of violence, racial attitude, and religious implications underlying her works. This paper is intended to approach the theme of estrangement, claimed to be an equally prevailing one in O'Connor's writing, through an interpretation of the plot, characters and images in her short story Everything That Rises Must Converge in addition to an analysis of the motivations that give rise to the theme.