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< class=MsoNormal style="MARGIN: 0cm 0cm 0pt; WORD-BREAK: break-all; TEXT-INDENT: 51.6pt; TEXT-ALIGN: left; mso-pagination: widow-orphan; tab-stops: 396.0pt" align=left><FONT color=#000000><FONT face="Times New Roman"><SPAN lang=EN-US style="FONT-SIZE: 12pt; mso-font-kerning: 0pt">The story describe the last thought, feeling and memories of an elderly woman. She has been in some way deceived or disappointed in every love relationship of her life. Her past lover George. She faces her last moments of life with a mixture of strength, bitterness and fear. She gained her strength from the people that she felt jilted by. </SPAN><SPAN lang=EN-US style="FONT-SIZE: 9pt; FONT-FAMILY: 宋体; mso-font-kerning: 0pt; mso-bidi-font-family: 宋体"><?xml:namespace prefix = o ns = "urn:schemas-microsoft-comfficeffice" /><o:p></o:p></SPAN></FONT></FONT></P>
< class=MsoNormal style="MARGIN: 0cm 0cm 0pt; WORD-BREAK: break-all; TEXT-INDENT: 51.6pt; TEXT-ALIGN: left; mso-pagination: widow-orphan; tab-stops: 396.0pt" align=left><SPAN lang=EN-US style="FONT-SIZE: 12pt; mso-font-kerning: 0pt"><FONT face="Times New Roman" color=#000000>The theme of self –pity is obvious and thoroughly explored early on. As a young lady, she has left at altar on her wedding day. As a result , the pathetic woman feels sorry for herself for the rest of her life. She becomes a bitter old woman who is suspicious of every one around her. “The jilting of Granny W” is an exploration of human mind as if struggles to come to terms with loss and mortality.</FONT></SPAN><SPAN lang=EN-US style="FONT-SIZE: 9pt; FONT-FAMILY: 宋体; mso-font-kerning: 0pt; mso-bidi-font-family: 宋体"><o:p></o:p></SPAN></P>

<SPAN lang=EN-US style="FONT-SIZE: 10.5pt; FONT-FAMILY: 'Times New Roman'; mso-fareast-font-family: 宋体; mso-font-kerning: 1.0pt; mso-ansi-language: EN-US; mso-fareast-language: ZH-CN; mso-bidi-language: AR-SA"><FONT color=#000000>At&nbsp;the&nbsp;beginning&nbsp;of&nbsp;this&nbsp;story, Updike&nbsp;set&nbsp;three&nbsp;pretty&nbsp;girls&nbsp;in&nbsp;an&nbsp;ordinary&nbsp;supermarket, which&nbsp;caught&nbsp;readers&nbsp;eyes,&nbsp;also&nbsp;Sammy, the&nbsp;major&nbsp;<BR>character&nbsp;of&nbsp;this&nbsp;fiction. ,he&nbsp;was&nbsp;attracted&nbsp;by&nbsp;Queenie,&nbsp;who&nbsp;had&nbsp;a&nbsp;decent&nbsp;family&nbsp;which&nbsp;was&nbsp;quite&nbsp;different&nbsp;from&nbsp;Sammy's. When&nbsp;the&nbsp;conflicts&nbsp;broke&nbsp;out,&nbsp;<BR>Sanmmy&nbsp;wanted&nbsp;to&nbsp;quit&nbsp;his&nbsp;job&nbsp;to&nbsp;give&nbsp;a&nbsp;sympathy&nbsp;or&nbsp;rooting&nbsp;for&nbsp;these&nbsp;girls&nbsp;in&nbsp;impluse. But&nbsp;this&nbsp;such&nbsp;heronic&nbsp;behavior&nbsp;did&nbsp;not&nbsp;touch&nbsp;them.. Otherwise, he&nbsp;<BR>lost&nbsp;his&nbsp;job&nbsp;and&nbsp;did&nbsp;not&nbsp;know&nbsp;what&nbsp;was&nbsp;waiting&nbsp;for&nbsp;him&nbsp;in&nbsp;future. Maybe&nbsp;because&nbsp;he&nbsp;was&nbsp;so&nbsp;young&nbsp;that&nbsp;he&nbsp;did&nbsp;not&nbsp;have&nbsp;a&nbsp;fully&nbsp;understanding&nbsp;about&nbsp;<BR>the&nbsp;society,&nbsp;that&nbsp;is&nbsp;why&nbsp;he&nbsp;would&nbsp;did&nbsp;something&nbsp;rashly.</FONT><BR style="mso-special-character: line-break"><BR style="mso-special-character: line-break"></SPAN>

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< class=MsoNormal style="MARGIN: 15pt 22.5pt; LINE-HEIGHT: 23.25pt; mso-pagination: widow-orphan"><SPAN lang=EN-US style="COLOR: #333333; mso-bidi-font-size: 10.5pt; mso-font-kerning: 0pt"><FONT size=3><FONT face="Times New Roman">We all know , in order to show his disagreement with Lengel, the boy quit. But in my opinion, compared with chasing the favor of the charming girls, it is more important to win bread. Let analyse the result which caused by his impulse. The girls left the supermarket without what happened between the boy and Lengle not mention to feel grateful. Even he quit which sounds decent, but the direct effect is that&nbsp;the boy&nbsp;lost his&nbsp;job which supports his life. so in one word, he&nbsp;is a little bit impetuous&nbsp;,just like&nbsp;present&nbsp;us .<?xml:namespace prefix = o ns = "urn:schemas-microsoft-comfficeffice" /><o:p></o:p></FONT></FONT></SPAN></P>

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< class=MsoNormal style="MARGIN: 0cm 0cm 0pt; mso-pagination: widow-orphan"><SPAN lang=EN-US style="mso-bidi-font-size: 10.5pt; mso-font-kerning: 0pt"><FONT size=3><FONT color=#000000><FONT face="Times New Roman"><SPAN style="mso-spacerun: yes">&nbsp;</SPAN>It's not worth for the author to quit the job. He is just an employee, no matter how unfair he feels, what sympathy he pays to the girls, he is not capable to change the situation. Quiting the job is no of avail.<?xml:namespace prefix = o ns = "urn:schemas-microsoft-comfficeffice" /><o:p></o:p></FONT></FONT></FONT></SPAN></P>
< class=MsoNormal style="MARGIN: 0cm 0cm 0pt; WORD-BREAK: break-all; mso-pagination: widow-orphan"><SPAN lang=EN-US style="mso-bidi-font-size: 10.5pt; mso-font-kerning: 0pt"><FONT size=3><FONT color=#000000><FONT face="Times New Roman">&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp; The manager is a little fussy. Wearing what kind of clothes is not under his control. He interferes others' privacy.&nbsp;<o:p></o:p></FONT></FONT></FONT></SPAN></P>

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< class=MsoNormal style="MARGIN: 0cm 0cm 0pt; WORD-BREAK: break-all; mso-pagination: widow-orphan"><SPAN lang=EN-US style="mso-bidi-font-size: 10.5pt; mso-font-kerning: 0pt"><FONT size=3><FONT color=#000000><FONT face="Times New Roman"><SPAN style="mso-spacerun: yes">&nbsp;</SPAN>“I” quit the job as a check-outer. This thing was just caused by three girls who in bathing suits do their shopping. They are blamed by the manager of the supermarket who presents the conservative generation. And the girls present the younger generation who are open-minded. It is not so simple that “I” quit the job just for those three girls, ” I” want to escape the traditional value which fettered in “my” mind. “I” just wish to seek a real freedom in “my” life and no matter “how hard the world was going to be to me hereafter.”<?xml:namespace prefix = o ns = "urn:schemas-microsoft-comfficeffice" /><o:p></o:p></FONT></FONT></FONT></SPAN></P>

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< class=MsoNormal style="MARGIN: 0cm 0cm 0pt; TEXT-INDENT: 4.5pt"><SPAN lang=EN-US style="mso-bidi-font-size: 10.5pt"><FONT size=3><FONT color=#000000><FONT face="Times New Roman">After&nbsp;reading&nbsp;the&nbsp;novel,I&nbsp;was&nbsp;quite&nbsp;shocked.Why&nbsp;some&nbsp;people&nbsp;just&nbsp;judged&nbsp;a&nbsp;person&nbsp;by&nbsp;appearance.Nowadays,as&nbsp;a&nbsp;woman,we&nbsp;have&nbsp;the&nbsp;right&nbsp;to&nbsp;choose&nbsp;what&nbsp;we&nbsp;wear.Even&nbsp;if&nbsp;the&nbsp;dressing&nbsp;is&nbsp;disordinary,so&nbsp;what?&nbsp;Does&nbsp;it&nbsp;matter? I&nbsp;think&nbsp;the&nbsp;old&nbsp;rules&nbsp;should&nbsp;be&nbsp;broken,&nbsp;and&nbsp;our&nbsp;point&nbsp;of&nbsp;view&nbsp;needs&nbsp;to&nbsp;be&nbsp;<BR>updated&nbsp;and&nbsp;refreshed.Sam,the&nbsp;main&nbsp;character&nbsp;in&nbsp;the&nbsp;story,is&nbsp;a&nbsp;just&nbsp;one&nbsp;who&nbsp;can&nbsp;accept&nbsp;the&nbsp;new&nbsp;things&nbsp;and&nbsp;challenge&nbsp;the&nbsp;domain&nbsp;values.<?xml:namespace prefix = o ns = "urn:schemas-microsoft-comfficeffice" /><o:p></o:p></FONT></FONT></FONT></SPAN></P>

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The story “A &amp; P” begins with Sammy, who is a checkout clerk at an A &amp; P supermarket in a town. One day, the three girls who were wearing nothing but bathing suits walked into the A &amp; P grocery store. Because the girls wore very little, they were treated unfairly by the store's manager, Lengel. Sammy was very angry and protested to quit. However, nobody thanked for his action, include these three gills. In the last, Sammy felt the world would be a more complicated and harder place. Sammy’s words are not literary and easy to understand. He also uses some slang .In this story, I understand a principle. Not everybody could feel grateful for your hero’s action.

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< class=MsoNormal style="MARGIN: 0cm 0cm 0pt"><SPAN lang=EN-US style="mso-bidi-font-size: 10.5pt"><FONT size=3><FONT color=#000000><FONT face="Times New Roman">John Updike is one of the most well-known American writers to the readers. In his childhood, he has browsed many classic works, which formed a strong foundation for his later-on writing career. </FONT></FONT></FONT></SPAN></P>
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< class=MsoNormal style="MARGIN: 0cm 0cm 0pt"><SPAN lang=EN-US style="mso-bidi-font-size: 10.5pt"><FONT size=3><FONT color=#000000><FONT face="Times New Roman">As an essayist Updike is a gentle satirist, poking fun at American life and customs, without any mean-spirited nihilism. We can see his style of humor in his short story <SPAN style="mso-bidi-font-weight: bold">A&amp.</SPAN> He describes an old lady in such a way “she's one of these cash-register-watchers, a witch about fifty with rouge on her cheekbones and no eyebrows, and I know it made her day to trip me up. She'd been watching cash registers forty years and probably never seen a mistake before”. The plots of the story are simple, the boss of <SPAN style="mso-bidi-font-weight: bold">A&amp forces three girls in bathing suits out for their indecent dressing. To resist the feudalistic boss, “I” quit the shop. The purpose of his writing is to expose</SPAN><SPAN class=chunk-text> <?xml:namespace prefix = st1 ns = "urn:schemas-microsoft-comffice:smarttags" /><st1:country-region w:st="on"><st1:place w:st="on">America</st1:place></st1:country-region>'s moral and spiritual problems.<o:p></o:p></SPAN></FONT></FONT></FONT></SPAN></P>

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John.Updike... Rabbit Run...

呵呵~ 再次提醒下LZ的排版... 汗一个~

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上面的是什么东西?

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这个版啊,还真是个难事

I understand a principle: not everybody could feel grateful for your hero’s action
似乎觉得有些肤浅,用写作去凸现一个道德的判断或者命题的回答
小说是有趣的,幽默的,没有道德判断的。诗歌是激情的,人类本质的。

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这位网友是很早前发的帖子了. 实在是无法调整,只好做罢...

现在排版倒是简单多了.

PS: 是每次想记一句名言吗?

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什么?管理员先生,您跳度太大,PS是在问我吗?

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呵呵,只是总觉得您说的像是引语.

顺祝新年快乐了!!!

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原帖由 koloya 于 2009-1-24 19:45 发表
呵呵,只是总觉得您说的像是引语.

顺祝新年快乐了!!!



春节快乐

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