An Interpretation of the Family’s Tragedy in Everything I Never Told You_英语论文

摘要

《无声告白》是美国华裔新晋作家伍绮诗2014年发表的处女作长篇小说。借用女性主义、创伤理论以及人物性格的角度，本文从社会、家庭、个人三个方面来分析莉迪亚及其家庭悲剧发生的原因，分析书中所描写的华裔家庭异常行为背后的心理根源，以使读者更好地了解该作品，更深刻的体会作者对子女的教育观与对人生的价值观。本文分三个章节来阐述，第一章节将从社会根源来对早年间莉迪亚父母，即詹姆斯与玛丽琳他们的遭遇来分析性别与种族歧视对他们组建家庭之前的影响。第二章节从家庭的角度出发，分析对于组建家庭后，父母的期望对于导致莉迪亚最终走向死亡的影响。第三章节分析对于莉迪亚悲剧中自身性格所扮演的因素的影响。

关键词：伍绮诗《无声告白》 悲剧原因

Abstract

After six-year work, published in 2014, Everything I Never Told You, is written as a debut by Celeste Ng, who is an American-Chinese writer and novelist. With the theory of trauma, personality and feminism, the thesis is to uproot the causes of the abnormal behaviors of the family and look into Lydia’s death so that readers can get a better understanding of the author’s values and attitude towards education and life. This paper is divided into 3 parts. The first part is to examine the influence of the social factors, such as racial discrimination and sexual discrimination that influenced James and Marilyn. The second part is to analyze the causes of family, Marilyn and James’s unrealistic expectations and their influence on Lydia’s death. The last part is to analyze how Lydia her own individual factors play a part in her tragedy.

Key Words: Celeste Ng; Everything I Never Told You; Tragedy

Contents

摘要 2

Abstract 3

Introduction 4

1 Social Factors 2

1.1Racial Discrimination 2

1.2 Sexual Discrimination 4

2 Domestic factors 6

2.1 Influence of Lydia’s Mother 6

2.2 Influence of Lydia’s Father 7

2.3Influence of Lydia’s Brother 8

3 Individual factors 10

3.1 Thirst for Maternal Move 10

3.2 Loneliness in Inner World 12

Conclusion 144

Bibliography 155

Acknowledgments 16