《呼啸山庄》中不可信的叙述者.docVIP

《呼啸山庄》中不可信的叙述者 （王树利，毕节学院外国语学院，贵州 毕节，551700） 摘要：《呼啸山庄》中艾伦的叙述貌似真实可靠，但仔细考量却发现其叙述充满了扭曲与不可信。 关键字： 叙述者；艾伦；不可信 The Unreliable Narrator in Wuthering Heights （WANG Shu-li, School of Foreign Languages, Bijie University, 551700, China) Abstract: In Wuthering Heights, Ellen is a seemingly reliable narrator, but after close study she turns out to be an unreliable one. Keywords: narrator; Ellen; unreliable In Wuthering Heights, Emily showed her helplessness and disappointment with the distinction in social status. As a gipsy, the lowest and most despised being in the white world, Heathcliff went into a much higher environment in Wuthering Heights but was badly received. Later when he was deprived of education, he did not pity since he never found an interest in it. This is the same story in Catherines case. Though born in a gentry family, she performed no manners of a lady. After marriage to Edgar Linton, she developed into a mature, graceful and social mistress, which but lasted only a short time. Her nature did not fit into the gentrys world. Thus, she could not play a due part in the society. But this disappointment is not merely Emilys. It is also the prevailing ache in Ellens heart. The whole story of Wuthering Heights, though noted down by Mr. Lockwood, a tenant in Thrushcross Grange, is actually from Ellen Dean, the housekeeper there. She witnessed and even experienced or played a part, a part which cannot afford to be ignored, in the whole story. She grew up with the Earnshaw children一Hindley and Catherine and the adopted son Heathcliff. She was present in listening to Catherine complaining that it would degrade her to marry Heathcliff, upon which Heathcliff finally decided to leave Wuthering Heights. After Catherine married Edgar Linton, she also left for Thrushcross Grange, and witnessed Catherines life there, Heathcliffs returning and their reunion. She even stayed through the withering and dying process of Catherine. She had sound and solid co