鸡蛋胜利.ppt

The Triumph of the Egg
赵雪娜马久菊
Some information about the author
Sherwood Anderson was born in Ohio on September 13, 1876
His parents led a transient life.
He was forced to look for different jobs to help the family.
He moved to Chicago then there entered the Army.
Some information about the author
After the war, he enrolled at Wittenberg University in Springfield Ohio.
He had his first marriage with Cornelia Lane.
He left his position as well as his family to pursue the writer’s creativity in 1912.
In 1914, he divorced Cornelia and married Tennessee Mitchell.
Anderson's third marriage with Elizabeth Prall also failed, and he married Eleanor Copenhaver in the late 1920s. They traveled and often studied together.
Influence
He has been called the first of America's "psychological writers" because he first explored the motivations and frustrations of his fictional characters in terms of Sigmund Freud's theories of psychology.
Sherwood Anderson strongly influenced many writers between the two World Wars, particularly Hemingway and Faulkner who, in 1956, acknowledged Anderson as "the father of my generation of American writers and the tradition of American writing which our essors will carry on."
The break of American Dream
What is American Dream?
American Dream is a belief that after a hard struggle the United States will be able to achieve the ideal of a better life, that is, people have to work through their own hard work, courage, creativity and determination to move towards Prosperity, rather than rely on specific social classes and other assistance.
The structure of this novel
Feature: contrast
Before marriage :no notion of trying to rise
After marriage: ambitious/getting up in the world
chicken rising failure
restaurant business egg
the symbolic meaning of “the egg”
Egg’s Symbolic Meanings to the Boy
In the story, the boy’s life was haunted by the egg and gradually his own opinions of the egg were shaped; he had plicated feeling towards the