Abstract:

To Reach Japan and Amundsen all belong to Alice Munro’s latest collection of short stories, Dear Life. This paper has a brief introduction of Alice Munro and her achievements. Meanwhile, it offers a description of To Reach Japan and Amundsen. According to their love experience, it probes into the causes of love tragedies of two heroines, Greta and Vivien, in these two short stories. Their characters, status and living environments established their love views. In the light of their different ideas about the position of love in life and the failure in love, it compares their love views. Finally, take Greta and Vivien’s love views, for instance, this paper concludes Alice Munro’s love views simply.

Keywords: achievements; love tragedies; love views
                    
摘  要：

《到达日本》和《亚蒙森》均出自爱丽丝•门罗最新的短篇小说集《宝贵的生命》。本文简单介绍了爱丽丝•门罗以及她所获成就。同时，也简述了《到达日本》及《亚蒙森》的故事情节。根据两部短篇小说中，格里塔和薇薇安两位女主人公的爱情经历，探究了造成她们爱情悲剧的原因。她们的性格，社会地位，生活环境铸就了她们不同的爱情观。根据她们如何看待爱情在生命中的地位，如何看待失恋，对她们的爱情观做了比较。本文最后以格里塔和薇薇安两位女主人公的爱情观为例，浅要地总结出了爱丽丝•门罗的爱情观。

关键词：成就；爱情悲剧；爱情观

1  Introduction
Alice Munro is a Canadian female author. She is the recipient of the 2013 Nobel Prize in Literature, the 2009 Man Booker International Prize for her life’s work, she is also a three-time winner of Canada's Governor General's Award for fiction. The locus of Munro’s fiction is southwestern Ontario where she was born and grew up. So far, Alice Munro has published 12 collections of stories and 2 volumes of selected stories, as well as a novel. Her first collection of short stories The Happy Shadow Dance which takes her 20 years to write was published in 1968 when she was 37 years old. From 1982 to 2009, she produced several novels, among which, there appeared her most well-known book, Run Away. And in 2012, her collection of short stories Dear Life was published, including 14 stories. After that, she announced that Dear Life was her last novel. Munro's writing has established her as "modern Chekhov."