《第二次冲突》的情节设置无疑是荒诞的。 小说的主人公是一位极其普通平凡的妇女——埃利斯太太,她失去了丈夫,只有一个九岁的女儿苏珊,被安排在一所离家30英里远的寄宿学校里读书。这样,她就常常是一个人,过着一种有条不紊而又有些枯燥乏味的生活。这一切,似乎都大平常了。 The episode of the Second Conflict is undoubtedly absurd. The protagonist of the novel is an extremely ordinary woman, Mrs. Ellis, who has lost her husband and only nine-year-old daughter Susan, who is scheduled to attend a boarding school 30 miles away. In this way, she is often a person, living a methodical and somewhat boring life. All this seems to be commonplace.