《她在黑暗中躺下》叙述了美国南方一个家庭里母亲、父亲与两个女儿之间爱恨情仇的故事,塑造了两代女性的悲剧性形象,为“二战”以后美国的人生留下了一段具有标志性的历史。小说的成功在很大程度上是作家选择了三重地理空间的复合,以空间叙事的方式展开人物的故事与呈现人物的内心,从而实现了深广的思想内容与高超的艺术表达相统一的目标。 She Lies Down in the Dark recounts the story of love and hate between mother and father and two daughters in a family in the South of the United States and creates the tragic image of two generations of women. Life has left a period of landmark history. To a large extent, the success of the novel is that writers have chosen the complex of three geospatial spaces to expand the story of the characters and reveal the innermost feelings of the characters in a way of spatial narration, so as to achieve the goal of unifying the profound ideological content with superb artistic expression.