美国文学-The Triumph of the Egg

美国文学经典阅读·作品文本研究
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The Triumph of the Egg
学生：周柳池
Contents
Brief introduction to the Sherwood Anderson The summary of The Triumph of the Egg The translation of The Triumph of the Egg Analysis of the structure---outline "egg"
Brief introduction to the Sherwood Anderson Sherwood Anderson(1876–1941)
Sherwood Anderson was an
American novelist and short story
writer, known for subjective and
self-revealing works.
Life Experience Achievements
Life Experience
➢Born in a poor family in Camden southern Ohio in 1876,the third of seven children in a family.
➢Had to take on many odd jobs when he was still in school, shch as a news boy, a painter and so on.
➢Worked as a manual laborer until enrolling in the army for service in Cuba during the Spanish-American War.
➢Engaged in dope business and became a successful businessman in Elyria
➢Suffered a mental breakdown and disappeared for 4 days, and left the family to pursue the writer's life of creativity.
➢In his whole life, he divorced and remarried for 4 times.
Achievements
◆As a famous novelist and short story writer, he published eight novels, four collections of short stories, three books of poems and plays, more than 300 articles, reviews and essays, and three volumes of autobigraphy.
◆Anderson has influenced many great writers, such as Hemingway, William Faulkner.
The summary of The Triumph of the Egg
The story is about a three-person family which lived near a small town, Bidwell, Ohio. Anderson relates the story from a little boy's view. The boy witnessed a series of financial failure and frustration fallen upon his family and how his father became somewhat psychologically abnormal.
Before Marriage After Marriage He lived an ordinary but peaceful life, having "no notion of trying to rise in the world" . After marrying a school teacher, he began to change,"---the couple became ambitious" The American passion for getting up in the world took possession of them.
Countryside The town He had then a horse of his own and on Saturday evenings drove to spend a few hours in social intercourse with other farm-hands.
Chicken Raising
Restaurant Business
His grotesque chicken collection and egg tricks ruined his deam completely.
The translation of The Triumph of the Egg I, however, digress. My tale does not primarily concern itself with the hen. If correctly told it will center on the egg. For ten years my father and mother struggled to make our chicken farm pay and then gave up that struggle and began another. They moved into the town of Bidwell, Ohio, and embarked in the restaurant business. After ten years of worry with incubators that did not hatch,and with tiny---and in their own way lovely---balls of fluff that passed on into semi-naked pullethood and from that into dead henhood. We threw all asides and packing our belongings on a wagon drove down Griggs's Road toward Bidwell, a tiny caravan of hope looking for a new place from which to start on our upward journey through life.
噢，我跑题了，我的故事不是主要讲母鸡的。

准确地说，它是以鸡蛋为核心的。

十多年里，我父母为了让养鸡场盈利而奋斗，但最后他们不得不放弃，开始了另一桩生意。

他们搬进了俄亥俄州的比德韦尔镇从事饭馆营生。

十年来，我们不知担了多少心，从孵化箱能不能解化，到那特别可爱的小毛球，再到半裸的小母鸡，然后到死母鸡。

十年后我们把所有这些统统扔到了一边，将我们的所有都装到一辆马车上，驶下了格里格斯路，向比德韦尔镇驶去，一辆小马车载着我们对新地方的希望--从那里开始了我们向上游社会迈进的人生旅程。

Analysis of the structure---outline "egg"
⏹Chicken raising (start pursuing his dream)
⏹Chickens sick and die constantly (meet troubles and can
not control his own life)
⏹Grotesques (distorted concept)
⏹The dreadful circle (egg and chicken, people and their
generation)
⏹Egg trick (desire to be respected, break of dream)
⏹Lay the egg, close the restaurant and go to bed (give up)。