雷蒙德·卡弗是20世纪中后期美国最具影响力的短篇小说家。卡弗善于从琐碎的日常生活中发现那些有意义的,能够展现生活真实的小事,并将它们以凝练的语言和朴素的形式表达出来。同时,在那些看似平凡的事件中,读者总能体会到其内部的巨大张力,压抑的情绪,难以掌控的现实,复杂的精神世界,人与人之间的隔膜、疏离与种种心理冲突,醒目、惊人却又不容回避。《软座包厢》是卡弗的代表作品,本文从叙事影像化和象征手法的运 Raymond Carver is America’s most influential short storyteller in the late 20th century. Carver is good at discovering trivial everyday things that are meaningful, can show the real life of the trivial matters, and their concise language and simple form of expression. At the same time, in those seemingly trivial events, the readers can always feel the tremendous tension, repressed emotions, the unmanageable reality, the complicated spiritual world, the interpersonal divide, the alienation and various psychological conflicts, Eye-catching, amazing but unavoidable. “Soft seat box” is a representative work of Carver, this article from the narrative visualization and symbolism of the operation