成长小说《黑莓之冬》中的不确定性分析

在成长小说中,青年人不论是从天真走向世故,还是从世故走向成熟,都需要面对人生的种种不确定因素,这种人生的不确定性在罗伯特·潘·沃伦的成长小说《黑莓之冬》中,无论是从内容上还是从形式上均得到充分体现。文章通过对《黑莓之冬》中的天气变化、人物命运和开放性结尾进行分析,得出人生中唯一可以确定的事就是其不确定性的结论。

Uncertainty in Blackberry Winter as an Initiation Story

In initiation stories, young protagonists should face the uncertainty of life from their innocent period to their experienced period and then to the period of maturity, which is fully represented in Robert Penn Warren＇ s initiation story Blackberry Winter. Blackberry Winter reveals the uncertainty of life both from the content and the form. This paper aims at discovering the fact that the only certainty of life is its uncertainty through analyzing the changeable weather, fates of the characters as well as the open ending in Blackberry Winter.