论文部分内容阅读
美国当代女作家盖尔·戈德温(Gai1 Godwin,1938—)新近发表了她的第五都长篇小说《母亲和两个女儿》(A Mother and Two Daughters)。这部小说主要描写三位女性:一位是律师的遗孀内尔,另两位是内尔的两个女儿凯特和莉迪娅。内尔因突然失去恩爱的丈夫而万分悲痛,担心自己能否独立生活下去。年近四旬的凯特,性情倔强,已两次离婚,她所在的那个学院又因缺乏经费行将关闭。拘谨古板的莉迪娅,嫁给一个银行家,已有两个十几岁的儿子,但莉迪娅却在结婚十八年之后,同丈夫分手了。她们三人的遭遇,在现实生活中司空见惯,不足为奇。但在戈德温的笔下,各家有各家难念的经,三位女性的不同性格和
American contemporary writer Gai Godwin (1938-) recently published her fifth novel, A Mother and Two Daughters. The novel mainly describes three women: one is the lawyer’s widow Nell, the other two are Neil’s two daughters, Kate and Lydia. Ner was extremely saddened to lose her beloved husband suddenly and worried he could live independently. Nearly four-year-old Kate, stubborn, has twice divorced, and she was in that college due to lack of funds will be shut down. Lichia, a clergyman, marries a banker who already has two teenage sons, but Lydia broke up with her husband 18 years after getting married. It is not surprising that the experience of the three of them is commonplace in real life. However, in Godwin’s pen, each family has a hard time, the three women of different personalities and