American playwright Shepard’s plays are known for their open endings.The ending of Shepard’s Pulitzer Prize-winning play-Buried Child is intriguing.Some critics see this ending as a sign of the rebirth of American f...American playwright Shepard’s plays are known for their open endings.The ending of Shepard’s Pulitzer Prize-winning play-Buried Child is intriguing.Some critics see this ending as a sign of the rebirth of American families and the revival of American dream.But this article stands on the opposite position to give a negative answer to Haile’s“That may be the sun”(Shephard,1981,p.66)at the end of the play through illustrating Shephard’s authorization and subversion of two important myths in the play,which is a way of parody in postmodern theory.By digging the family scandals and corruption of American families in the play,it is expressed that perhaps the natural world has a chance to be reborn,but not human society under the pathetic and corruptive social background.展开更多
文摘American playwright Shepard’s plays are known for their open endings.The ending of Shepard’s Pulitzer Prize-winning play-Buried Child is intriguing.Some critics see this ending as a sign of the rebirth of American families and the revival of American dream.But this article stands on the opposite position to give a negative answer to Haile’s“That may be the sun”(Shephard,1981,p.66)at the end of the play through illustrating Shephard’s authorization and subversion of two important myths in the play,which is a way of parody in postmodern theory.By digging the family scandals and corruption of American families in the play,it is expressed that perhaps the natural world has a chance to be reborn,but not human society under the pathetic and corruptive social background.
