The theme of death and the coward image of the protagonist in The Snows of Kilimanjaro are highlighted in the respects of discourse semantics,narrative order and narrative voice.Appraisal is the most essential discour...The theme of death and the coward image of the protagonist in The Snows of Kilimanjaro are highlighted in the respects of discourse semantics,narrative order and narrative voice.Appraisal is the most essential discourse semantics in the short story,which presents the protagonist's attitude and feeling of death.Flashback makes the image of the protagonist complete and vivid and shows the protagonist's evaluation to his life.The mix of extradiegetic-heterodiegetic voice and intradiegetic-homodiegetic voice strengthens the emotion and presents the feeling of death.展开更多
文摘The theme of death and the coward image of the protagonist in The Snows of Kilimanjaro are highlighted in the respects of discourse semantics,narrative order and narrative voice.Appraisal is the most essential discourse semantics in the short story,which presents the protagonist's attitude and feeling of death.Flashback makes the image of the protagonist complete and vivid and shows the protagonist's evaluation to his life.The mix of extradiegetic-heterodiegetic voice and intradiegetic-homodiegetic voice strengthens the emotion and presents the feeling of death.