【正文】 本科畢業(yè)設(shè)計(jì)（論文）題 目： “A Wall, a Flight of Stairs, an Open Road”A Brief Interpretation of the Female Images in Carson McCullers’s Major Works卡森麥卡勒斯作品中女主人公形象分析學(xué) 院： 外國語學(xué)院 專 業(yè)： 英語 學(xué) 號： 070703217 學(xué)生姓名： 指導(dǎo)教師： 職 稱： 講師 二零一一年六月“A Wall, a Flight of Stairs, an Open Road”A Brief Interpretation of the Female Images in Carson McCullers’s Major Works A THESISSUBMITTED IN PARTIAL FULFILMENT OF THE REQUIREMENTS FOR THE DEGREE OFBACHELOR OF ARTSBYSu XixinSUPERVISED BYZhao LiENGLISH DEPARTMENTSCHOOL OF FOREIGN STUDIESNANJING FORESTRY UNIVERSITYJUNE 2011AcknowledgementsUpon the pletion of this thesis, I would like to express my hearty appreciation to all those who have granted me invaluable help.First, I am especially indebted to Ms. Zhao Li, my supervisor, for her engagement and guidance and help while this paper was being written.I should also convey my sincere gratitude to my classmates, Miss Jiang Lingyun, Miss He Lin, Miss He Baofeng, and especially Miss Luo Ning, for their warm support to this paper.Last but not least, special thanks should also go to my mother, without whose support I should never have fulfilled my studies in this university.AbstractCarson McCullers, one of the most influential writers in America, is an extraordinary woman who leaves us a bundle of splendid novels despite her short and hard life. Writing about outcasts, dreamers and misfits in the Deep South, Carson McCullers was acclaimed for her sympathetic depictions of loneliness, the need for understanding and the search for love. Her masterpieces of eccentrics, failed prodigies, injustice and hope, written when she was in her twenties, explore the human condition with humor and pathos. Standing from the perspective of Bildungsroman and against in the backdrop of the Southern Renaissance, this paper aims to demonstrate that the female protagonists in Carson’s several major works are all positive images of the new south. They do not succumb to patriarchal bonds or lose their identity due to poverty and setbacks. Instead, they all fight and struggle for their dream, just like their creator —— Carson McCullers herself. Though detailed analysis, and focused on the transition of the protagonists respectively, this paper jumps out of conventional viewpoints of gothic or grotesque themes and alienation. Rather, it proposes that from the angle of Bildungsroman, these antisouthernbelle protagonists are a rising and expanding generation in the Southern Renaissance, growing up together with the new south. Key words: Carson McCullers, Bildungsroman, adolescence, Southern Renaissance摘要卡森麥卡勒斯是美國最富影響力的作家之一。盡管她的一生短暫又多舛，這位杰出的女作家給我們留下一系列卓越的作品。麥卡勒斯善于刻畫南方深處的流浪兒，異類，還有夢想家們，因其富有同情心地描寫人的孤獨(dú)，對理解和真愛的渴望而飽受贊譽(yù)。在麥卡勒斯20多歲時(shí)，她寫的一系列探討怪人、失敗的天才、不公、希望的生存狀況的杰作既幽默又傷感。在美國南方文藝復(fù)興的背景下，本論文試著從成長小說的角度來證明卡森幾部主要作品中的女主人公的積極形象都代表著一個(gè)全新的南方。盡管貧窮而飽受挫折，這些女孩沒有向父權(quán)制社會(huì)的束縛低頭，也沒有失去自我認(rèn)同。相反的，她們?yōu)榱俗约旱膲粝攵範(fàn)幎鴴暝?，就像她們的?chuàng)造者卡森麥卡勒斯一樣。通過細(xì)致的分析來重點(diǎn)探討女主人公各自的轉(zhuǎn)變過程,本文摒棄哥特主題和人心疏離的傳統(tǒng)觀點(diǎn)。筆者轉(zhuǎn)而從成長小說的角度來證明這些反南方淑女形象的主人公們是南方文藝復(fù)興中日益崛起的一股新興力量，她們和新南方共同成長。關(guān)鍵詞：卡森麥卡勒斯； 成長小說； 青春期；南方文藝復(fù)興Contents1. Introduction 1 information of Carson McCullers1 definition of the Southern Renaissance3 definition of Bildungsroman42. Demonstration 5 Heart Is a Lonely HunterMick Kelly 5 inside room and outside room 6 upclinging to dream despite destitute 7 Member of the WeddingFrankie9. Jasmine escaping the cell of Frankie the freak 10. Growing upfinding the answer to “Who am I” 11. “Wunderkind”“bienchen” 12. From blind obedience to her original self13. Growing up speaking out her mind13 unfinished melody153. Conclusion 16Notes18Works Cited19Bibliography20“A Wall, a Flight of Stairs, an Open Road” A Brief Interpretation of the Female Images in Carson McCullers’s Major Works 1. Introduction Background information of Carson McCullers Carson McCullers was born Lula Carson Smith in Columbus, Georgia in 1917. McCullers lived a short life, but this did not prevent her from being a versatile and talented writer. She wrote some bestsellers, became rich and famous, suffered emotional upheavals, and died at 50. Her first novel The Heart Is a Lonely Hunter came out in 1940 when she was only 23 years old. The early 1940s was her most creative time of writing and she wrote almost all her major works during this time: Reflections in a Golden Eye (1941), The Ballad of the Sad Caf233。 (1943), and The Member of the Wedding (1946). Her novels have similar themes and are all set in a small town in the South, deep in the summer heat. Loneliness and spiritual iso