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【Abstract】Ernest Hemingway was one of the most influential novelists in America literature. A Clean， Well-lighted Place is one of the most representative short novels， which has been studied by many researchers from different angles. The paper will analyze it by using the approach of binary opposition.
【Key words】Ernest Hemingway； binary opposition； A Clean； Well-lighted Place
【作者簡介】仵雨萌（1994- ），女，陕西渭南人，西北大学外国语学院，硕士研究生，主要研究方向为英语语言文学。
I. Structuralism and binary opposition
Structuralism is an intellectual movement which began in France in the 1950s and the concept derived from linguistics. The structuralists consider that all social and cultural activities of human beings in daily life is dependent upon by various codes， signs and rules. Peter Barry （2002） in his book Beginning Theory said： “Its essence is the belief that thing cannot be understood in isolation—they have to be seen in the context of the larger structures they are part of.”Structuralism applies modern structural linguistics research and methods which advocated by Ferdinand de Saussure into the literary criticism. He proposes using synchronic study to analyze the language.
Binary opposition is one of the most conceptions in the structuralism. In Saussure’s work General Course in Linguistics， he put forward four binary oppositions： parole
【Key words】Ernest Hemingway； binary opposition； A Clean； Well-lighted Place
【作者簡介】仵雨萌（1994- ），女，陕西渭南人，西北大学外国语学院，硕士研究生，主要研究方向为英语语言文学。
I. Structuralism and binary opposition
Structuralism is an intellectual movement which began in France in the 1950s and the concept derived from linguistics. The structuralists consider that all social and cultural activities of human beings in daily life is dependent upon by various codes， signs and rules. Peter Barry （2002） in his book Beginning Theory said： “Its essence is the belief that thing cannot be understood in isolation—they have to be seen in the context of the larger structures they are part of.”Structuralism applies modern structural linguistics research and methods which advocated by Ferdinand de Saussure into the literary criticism. He proposes using synchronic study to analyze the language.
Binary opposition is one of the most conceptions in the structuralism. In Saussure’s work General Course in Linguistics， he put forward four binary oppositions： parole