英语阅读短篇小说赏析

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短篇小说：阅读与阐释

老师：时静

文章：Hills Like White Elephants

姓名;陈富成

学号：1410700619

Appreciation of short stories

-------Hills Like White Elephants

"Hills Like White Elephants" is a short story by Ernest Hemingway. It was first published in the 1927 collection Men Without Women. "Hills Like White Elephants" is commonly studied in literature courses because, while brief and accessible, it contains ingenious symbolism, efficient and powerful dialogue, and it deals with universal themes applied to a controversial topic (abortion) which is explored without ever being explicitly stated. These elements combine to make the story an apt introduction to Hemingway's minimalist narrative style, as expressed in his Iceberg Theory. It also illustrates the extent to which setting can contribute to meaning in fiction.

SYNIPSIS

The focus of the story is on a American man, a girl in a train station in Spain, a dialogue between a train waiting for the train in Madrid. The girl compared the white elephant around the hill. Double oblique discussion of an "operation", the man to the woman, which is suggestive of an abortion. The train arrived at the scene.

SETTING

The action takes place in the mid-1920s at a train station in Zaragoza, a major city in northeastern Spain on the Ebro River. Zaragoza is approximately170 miles northeast of Madrid. The region around Zaragoza receives scant rainfall.The greenery observed by Jig may have flourished through irrigation.

THE CARARACTER :

1. The woman

The first the woman is romance and Literature.When she talks with the man ,she said:” They look like white elephants”. Instead, the man doesn't care.Then the woman is a sensitive, timid and moral person.When the man said,” Just because you say I wouldn't have doesn't prove anything”. The girl looked at the bead curtain.It reveals that the her inner rejects the decision,but she can’t said directly. She is a complicated role. But she made up hermind to do the aborlion last. Otherwise she would not have drunk somuch. In addition, she always usessnbjunctive moodto indicatethe baby tlling: 'we could have althis”,''we could have everything.”''we could get along.” Even if she is determined to do surgery, this does not contradict her feelings of guilt, regret and worry, because the reality let her iitlle choice of opportunity. But we should note that the baby is not the only one bite. She actually wanted more about their future, because it was clear when she asked the man:“Then what will we do afterward?' “And youreally want to?”“YouwiI1 be happy?”“ If I do it you won't ever worry?” 'It's really an awfully simple operation, Jig,' 'It's not really an operation at all.' 'I know you wouldn't mind it, Jig. It's really not anything. It's just to let the air in.' 'That's the only thing that bothers us. It's the only thing that's made us unhappy.' 'I know we will. You don't have to be afraid. I've known lots of people that have done it.'

2.The man

In my view,I don’t like the man .I think This man is a man who is irresponsible and cunning, and even does not love this woman at all. The man enjoys their lifestyle and wants it to continue. He pressures the woman to have an operation so they can be “just like before”she becomespfegnnt. He knows that she is reluctant, and he assumes she is canoemed about the operation itself.Like this: 'Well, let's try and have a fine time.'

THEME

The white elephants is considered a sacred anima1 by some cultuures and,therefore,Josefh

DeFalco explained how the term reflectes upon the man.”It not only means an annoyingly useless gift;it may also be possession of great value.In this context the child symbolizes the man’s inability to see that child might prove a meaning to life which he lacks.

VIEW

At first,I think we should know what is the "Lost Generation".Acording to the Internet, the "Lost Generation" is a term used to refer to the generation,actually a cohort,that came of age during World War I.The term was popularized by Ernest Hemingway who used it as one of two contrasting epigraphs for his novel,The Sun Also Rises.Variously,the term is used for the period from the end of World War I to the beginning of the Great Depression,though in the United States it is used for the generation of young people who came of age during and shortly after World War I,alternatively known as the World War I generation.It’s necesary to talk about the story.

Then,let’s talk about the story. In my imagination, the text of a class of people who are talking to a job for a living, no house, not enough deposits of young people. They have just a social soon, lack of life experience, no parental constraints. They hold the idea but did not enjoy pleasure in good time, financial support, and to DOSOMETHINPREVIOUSLYUNRELEASED. They struggled between the ideal and the rent. Ideal is the burden of reality, but the ideal is a good way to escape from reality.

The author talk about abortion is a very difficult problem, for those who be kept constantly on the run. Once you have a child, life becomes a problem.. They are just a child, not even the real adult, want to be as free as adults. With children, they can not be in a daze all day long, they must force themselves to make money. They were afraid, not just afraid of losing their ideal, but also afraid of losing themselves.. But what is love for them. If love is only sex, it will betray their faith.. Also, the stomach of the child should not think that they are a life also need to ask their own. The man in the paper is a big bad guy.. If it was a forced living, the woman agreed to his explanation.. However, after the abortion their life is really as happy as before? The person can't have the abortion again and again, the body and spirit of the person is all have the limit, this time is love to be nothing.

Finally,afer reading the story ,the only one thing I what to say is that how to grow to be an adult .No one tell you how to be ,even if parents or teather.They always tell you be responsible.They always think they know how you will be ,so they want no to say more. The reason why we become the "Lost Generation" is that we want too much, we believe that the dream can be realized, the reality is waiting for us. We all like dreaming, we don't like to wake up..