Araby评论.doc

2008-09-13 09:01
The author used the Araby to describe the differences occurred in the boy’s minds. He centered on Araby, then emphasized on many characteristis or quality of the boy at that age. It can be divided into three parts, not only the time but also the changes of the boy’s thinking.
Firstly, before the boy came to Araby, he didn’t know what would happen, he just the one who in that age, was full of blindness, innocence, simplicity. “every morning I lay on the floor in the front parior watching her door.” Mangan’s sister gave him a good impression, he thought that was a kind of love, a sense that made his blood foolish. but blood couldn’t be foolish, so it was his mind, behavor that made him seem to be unwise.
“her image accompanied me even in places the most hostile to romance.” This was also the characteristics of that age’s boy. He thought little of the future, but only the fellings at that time. He was a little shy when Mangan’s sister spoke to him.he was confused and didn’t know how the first words came out. That was comman when a boy of that age was in front of the one who impressed them well, especilly when they thought there was love between them.
“I had hardly any patience with the serious work of life which,now that it stood between me and my desire,seemed to me chlid’s play,urgly monotonous child’s play.” He expressed his fellings in the way a man did but not a child. When he promised Mangan’s sister to bring something to her, he took this as a duty, so he thought himself as a man who could take responsibility. Then he found work a child’s play, urgly. it seemed that he wasn’t a child but a man. That was also a point.
He would go to Araby for his promise. so he would do his best to achieve it. When his uncle forgot his request, he was unhappy until some pennies were given.
Secondly, when he came to Araby, he should have been so excited but when he found nearly all stalls were closed and the greater part of the hall was in darkness, he recognized a silence like that which pervades a church after a servie. And he walked into the center of the bazaar timidly but not excitedly. That was because he of that age was also afraid of darkness. This kind of fear made him remember difficultly the reason he came there.
It was the curiousity and a sense of guess let him listened to the conversation between the young lady and two young gentlemen.
“she seemed to have spoken to me out of a sense of duty.” He found something about the reality in the life. Then it came to the thrid part.
He allowed the two pennies to fall against the sixpence in his pocket. Maybe we can say he allowed two minds compete with each other. Then he heard a voice came from the end of gallery that the light was out. One of the mind won. He saw the upper part pf the hall was completely dark. He found suddenly that kind of love was blind
So he learnt something from the things he saw in the Araby. It was the darkness that made him see clearly in his heart. so when he found there was something wrong he would be angry.
Before he went to Araby,he was blind When he was at the center Araby, there was a sudden comprehension of the truth insight, and when he went out from Araby, Maybe he was conscious although the author didn’t mention, we can see from the last sentence which implicated the boy had seen through the darkness.
So the author used The Araby as the title of the article,it could be a cule for us to maintain the whole background at that time. The author might want to tell us Araby is something the boy have to face, unless he have suffered it, he would understand the life better. That was a period every boy of that age must encounter.
《阿拉比》araby 是短篇小说集《都柏林人》的第三篇，属于乔伊斯的早期作品。

乔伊斯在创作《阿拉比》时笔法细腻，表现出福楼拜式风格。他刻意追求细节描写高度精确，并赋予丰富的象征意义。故事中的小男孩朦胧中爱上了隔壁邻居家的女孩，星期六晚上专程到阿拉比市场去给她买礼物以示心意。叙述者没有点明女孩的真实姓名，男孩只知道她是“曼根的姐姐”。这一细节表明：他爱上的只是一个美丽的意象，而不是真正的人。小说中的blind一词具有多重含义：死胡同，百叶窗，同时也喻指盲目无知状态。乔伊斯讲述了一个男孩浪漫幻想破碎的成长故事。

《阿拉比》放弃了传统小说“冲突-高潮”的情节结构。乔伊斯按照“顿悟”来谋篇布局。“顿悟”，根据乔伊斯自己的定义，是“一种突然的精神显现，或者是发生在卑俗的言词或行动中，或者是发生在心灵本身一个难忘的阶段。”《阿拉比》故事结尾时，男孩面对成人世界的打情骂俏，获得对生活的痛苦认识。乔伊斯把兴趣焦点投到人物精神世界的变化上面，“顿悟”的结构模式为他提供了一个有效手段，也使《阿拉比》成为现代短篇小说的佳作。