代表作3：林中之死
1) 简介
鼻子歪面相Death in the Woods is a short story written by Sherwood Anderson first published in 1924 and reprinted in 1933. As one of the most influential American writers, Anderson is famous for his short story collections, and was a major proponent in the revitalization of the American idiom in fiction. Death in the Woods is considered one of Anderson's most distinctive stories, displaying many of the ingenious narrative strategies Anderson cultivated in his short pro.
Death in the Woods is prented as a first-person narrative by an unreliable narrator, who tells the story of an old woman, Mrs. Grimes. It was a flashback narrative. The boy who told the story gathered all the facts he could from the time he witnesd the death of the old woman when he was a young boy up to the time when he grew up as a man and understood the real point of the story. Mrs. Grimes lives on the edge of society and survives by lling eggs and using the proceeds to buy food for herlf, her small family and the ani
mals in her care. Her husband is considered to be a hor thief, and the couple is looked down on by others. She was abandoned by her mother and grew up as an indentured rvant and received inappropriate attentions from her German master. Jake Grimes, who helps her get rid of her German master and his wife became her husband. However, marriage is not the end of her mirable life but the beginning of more torturous oppression. Mrs. Grimes and Jake Grime have a son and a daughter, but the daughter died in childhood. Their son grows up to be like his father. Both of them verbally abud Mrs. Grimes and treated her in a manner similar to the way the German and his wife had treated her. On the last day of her life, Mrs. Grimes walks into town to trade some eggs and buy some supplies. On her way home, she leaves the road and walks through the woods. On this shortcut she finds a place where she sits down to have a rest. While sitting down, she dies. The narration of the story was divided into five parts. The first part talks about the old woman who ud to visit the town to get the food she needs in exchange for the chicken eggs she brings. It tells about her experience in great distress and painful story before she gets married. The cond part talks about the old woman’s
mirable life after getting married. The third part, the main part of the whole story, talks about the death of the old woman in woods. The forth part is about the respon of other people for the old woman’s death after her corp was founded. The last part is about the narrator’s own idea for the event.
2) 英文原文
She was an old woman and lived on a farm near the town in which I lived. All country and small-town people have en such old women, but no one knows much about them. Such an old woman comes into town driving an old worn-out hor or she comes afoot carrying a basket. She may own a few hens and have eggs to ll. She brings them in a basket and takes them to a grocer. There she trades them in. She gets some salt pork and some beans. Then she gets a pound or two of sugar and some flour.
红尘来去一场空Afterwards she goes to the butcher's and asks for some dog-meat. She may spend ten or fifteen cents, but when she does she asks for something. Formerly the butchers gave liver to any one who wanted to carry it away. In our family we were always having it. Onc质量证书
e one of my brothers got a whole cow's liver at the slaughter-hou near the fairgrounds in our town. We had it until we were sick of it. It never cost a cent. I have hated the thought of it ever since.
数字语言The old farm woman got some liver and a soup-bone. She never visited with any one, and as soon as she got what she wanted she lit out for home. It made quite a load for such an old body. No one gave her a lift. People drive right down a road and never notice an old woman like that.
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There was such an old woman who ud to come into town past our hou one Summer and Fall when I was a young boy and was sick with what was called inflammatory rheumatism. She went home later carrying a heavy pack on her back. Two or three large gaunt-looking dogs followed at her heels.
The old woman was nothing special. She was one of the nameless ones that hardly any one knows, but she got into my thoughts. I have just suddenly now, after all the years, remembered her and what happened. It is a story. Her name was Grimes, and she lived
with her husband and son in a small unpainted hou on the bank of a small creek four miles from town.
The husband and son were a tough lot. Although the son was but twenty-one, he had already rved a term in jail. It was whispered about that the woman's husband stole hors and ran them off to some other county. Now and then, when a hor turned up missing, the man had also disappeared. No one ever caught him. Once, when I was loafing at Tom Whitehead's livery-barn, the man came there and sat on the bench in front. Two or three other men were there, but no one spoke to him. He sat for a few minutes and then got up and went away. When he was leaving he turned around and stared at the men. There was a look of defiance in his eyes. "Well, I have tried to be friendly. You don't want to talk to me. It has been so wherever I have gone in this town. If, some day, one of your fine hors turns up missing, well, then what?" He did not say anything actually. "I'd like to bust one of you on the jaw," was about what his eyes said. I remember how the look in his eyes made me shiver.
The old man belonged to a family that had had money once. His name was Jake Grimes. It all comes back clearly now. His father, John Grimes, had owned a sawmill when the country was new, and had made money. Then he got to drinking and running after women. When he died there wasn't much left.房屋拆迁合同
东西方文化Jake blew in the rest. Pretty soon there wasn't any more lumber to cut and his land was nearly all gone.
He got his wife off a German farmer, for whom he went to work one June day in the wheat harvest. She was a young thing then and scared to death. You e, the farmer was up to something with the girl--she was, I think, a bound girl and his wife had her suspicions. She took it out on the girl when the man wasn't around. Then, when the wife had to go off to town for supplies, the farmer got after her. She told young Jake that nothing really ever happened, but he didn't know whether to believe it or not.
