1.The Minister’s Black Veil--Hawthorne, 人物：Hooper
总结：A universally beloved minister appears in church one Sunday wearing a small black
veil which hides his face from the forehead to the mouth.Everyone is made uneasy by this.
After he has worn it for several Sundays a delegation from the congregation go to his home
to ask him to remove it, or at least explain why he is wearing it.But intimidated胁迫 by the veil,
they are afraid to raise the subject.
His bride-to-be then declares she will speak to him about it.When he will not discu the
matter with her she says she is afraid to marry him unle he lifts the veil at least once, or tells her
why he must refuses.He will not but begs her to marry him anyway, instead of condemning them
each to a lonely life.He continues to wear the veil throughout a lonely life.Everyone avoids him
but his sermons布道 become even more impreive and many people are brought to a state of
grace by them.
“black veil”symbolizes the cover used to keep one’s guilt as a secret.
2.The Adventures of Huckleberry Finn—Mark Twain 人物：Huck, Jim 1.Huck’s quest for freedom and Jim’s quest for anti-slavery
2.Society vs.individual
3.Huck’ birth and rebirth
4.Huck’s loneline and isolation 人物性格分析：Huck is always practical and natural, exhibiting good common sense.Huck is
extremely adaptable.Huck is also very shrewd and poees a good inventive ability.His
sympathy for other human beings, his shrewdne and ingenuity, his basic intelligence, his good
common sense and his basic practicality.
3.An American Tragedy-- Theodore Dreiser 人物：Clyde Griffths
总结：Clyde thinks money and succe will bring him happine.When a pregnant girlfriend
threatens to destroy this dream, he plans to kill her.At the last moment, he changes his mind, but
the girl dies accidentally anyway.Since Clyde has decided not to kill her, is he really responsible
for her death? This becomes the main question during the trial审判.The trial itself is not really
fair.The newspapers stir up public anger against him.In the end, Clyde is executed.Clearly,
Dreiser believes that Clyde is not really guilty.Dreiser calls his novel a tragedy, and in certain
ways it is similar to claical Greek tragedy.It concentrates on a single individual, who gives it
unity; and his individual is eventually destroyed by forces which he cannot control.
4.The Hairy Ape—Eugene O’Neill人物：Yank
全文总结：Yank, the ape-like seaman, attempts to rise to a higher level.Yank’s initial crisis is
seeing himself unfavorably in the mirror of the society girl when she calls him a filthy beast.After
this incident, and throughout the play, he struggles to find out exactly who and what he is.
Ultimately he tries to find meaning and purpose in the animal world by freeing a caged gorilla, but
this final effort fails also.In the end, Yank dies, without ever finding his place of belonging.The
general feeling is one of despair: Man is rootle in an indifferent and impersonal universe.
The next day Yank goes to the monkey house at the zoo.The gorilla’s brute
strength imprees him and he speaks to the animal as a friend.He describes the feelings he had in
the park, watching the sun rise on the sea.At last he understood Paddy’s nostalgia for the old life,
but he knew he could never belong to it.This realization led him to seek out the gorilla.Yank says
the gorilla is lucky to belong to one world while he belongs to neither heaven nor earth.Identifying himself with the animal, Yank frees him to get even with the men who have put him in the cage.The gorilla picks him up, crushes him and throws him into the open cage.When the door has slammed shut on him and the gorilla has gone the dying Yank calls out mockingly to imaginary spectators to step right up and have a look at the one and only--- Hairy Ape.He dies, having pronounced this final judgment on himself.In a stage note the playwright suggests that perhaps Yank at last belongs.
5.A Farewell to Arms—Ernest Hemingway 人物：Henry, Catherine Barkley, Emilio
Dialogue
Interior monologue// stream of consciousne
Understatement The Grim Reality of War
The Relationship between Love and Pain
Feelings of loThe novel tells about the war experience and the love story of an American lieutenant, Henry, during the World War I.Henry serves in the Italian ambulance crops, and fall in love with an English nurse, Catherine.Although in civilian clothes, he is suspected, and forced to flee with Cat to Switzerland.They go to Lausanne for the birth of their child, but the baby is stillborn and Cat dies in childbirth.Henry is left alone in a strange land; his dream of leading a decent life broke into smithereens.So the novel is both farewell to war, and a farewell to love.
6.Autobiography-- Benjamin FranklinIt is probably the first autobiography in American literature.It is an interesting record of a man rising to wealth and fame from a state of poverty and obscurity.It’s a record of self-examination and self-improvement.He wrote it at 65.
