一篇运用意识流技巧的佳作--试析《被遗弃的韦泽渥老太太》

<被遗弃的韦泽渥老太太>是美国女作家凯瑟琳·安·波特运用意识流手法的一部杰作.意识流手法使这部小说成为意义开放的作品.打动我们的,不仅仅是主人公坚强不屈的性格特征,而是人物心灵的丝丝颤动.我们读完了故事,却觉得没有读完.故事嘎然而止,却似乎留下了许多想象的余地.

An Excellent Work with Stream- of-Consciousness Technique

Katherine Anne Porter's The Jilting of Granny Weatherall is a work of successful use of the stream-of-consciousness technique. Its success lies not so much in the portrait of a tough and strong character as has been generally affirmed, rather, in its expressiveness of every little quivering of the inner world, and in the room it leaves for imagination.