nettles-课文人物分析.ppt

Marriage Life ?In my kitchen or in hers, once a week or so, distracted by our children and sometimes reeling for lack of sleep, we stoked ourselves up on strong coffee and cigarettes and launched out on a rampage of talk about our marriages, our personal deficiencies, our interesting and discreditable motives, and our forgone ambitions..para19 She ?abandoned?her?study and?work and was?in?a?state?of? confusion. She?gave up?her?social?life?to prepare her children?for?what was?going?to come?later?in life. She was?betraying?herself?and?giving up?what?she?values?most. But?since?she?married?her husband,?she?had to?forget?her?hobby?and?became?a good mother?to?her?children. ?She?was?swapping?that?ambition?for?the?chance? to?run?her?things. And I had moved for the new fangled reason that was approved of only in the special circles-leaving husband and house and the things acquired during marriage (except, of course, the children, who were to be parceled about, in the hope of making a life that could be lived without hypocrisy or deprivation or shame.para20 After marriage, she became subservient to the husband. In addition to doing the housework at home every day, sometimes, she accompanied her husband to go to dinner party. During the dinner party, they played an intimate couple in public . After the guests left, they became indifferent.  I was happy with all this-it made me feel as if I had made a true change, a long necessary voyage from house of marriage.para21  when her daughter ask her: why cant you just live at home? the older sister tell her: because she hates Dad, the narrator phoned her husband who asked nearly the same question and provided, on his own ,nearly the same answer.para23 I am learning to leave a man free and to be free myself. I am learning to take sex lightly, which is hard for me because that’s no way I started out , I’m not young, but I am learning. She was a standard of wife and mother, although there was no love , passion, enthusiasm between