鸡蛋的胜利

The Robber
According to the boy’s introduction, he could feel that the egg had robbed both his naive childhood and his father’s cheerful nature. he could also feel that the egg had committed a robbery to his father. His father was once a cheerful and kindly man by nature but “from long association with mother and the chickens he had become habitually silent and discouraged.” Because of his mother and the chickens or the egg that his father changed, and the root of all the unhappiness should be the egg
The Triumph of the Egg
赵雪娜 马久菊
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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.
His Father & The Boy Himself
the boy’s mother was incurably ambitious for his father and himself. Too much hope was loaded on them as well as on the egg. “Grotesques are born out of eggs as out of people”
egg
the symbolic meaning of “the egg” ”
1.The 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 a complicated feeling towards the egg.
Adults’ thoughts are different from a naive boy’s. We can explore the deep symbolic meanings of the egg in the story.
2.1 The Egg: Beautiful But Fragile American Dream 2.2 The Egg: The Author’s Warning ’ 2.3 The Egg: The Old Unsolved Riddle
Beautiful But Fragile American Dream
This story is from Sherwood Anderson's "The Triumph of the Egg," which was published in 1920s, when, with the rapid economic development, America was emerging as an industrial giant. The egg, no matter how hard the couple worked, their eggs would fail to meet their expectation. the egg just as the American dream
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 successors will carry on."
1.1The Egg: The Parasite 1.2 The Egg: The Robber 1.3 The Egg: His Father & The Boy Himself
the symbolic meaning of “the egg” ”
2. The Egg’s Symbolic Meanings to the Author & Reader
The Author’s Warning ’
In the story, when he later read the literature of fortunes to be made out of raising chickens, the author warned us “Do not be led astray by it. It was not written for you.” If you believed in it, you will be like the father, who had been turned into a grotesque by his egg. Anyway, “Grotesques are born out of eggs as out of people”. If you believed in it, your children will suffer the way the boy had suffered and an endless dreadful cycle will be formed.
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.
conclusion
Sherwood Anderson purposely adopted the boy’s point of view to make us notice more. Childhood should be naive and happy, but this child could not feel any happiness after having witnessed so many deaths and grotesques. And he was deeply involved in the dreadful cycle. The “egg” was harmful to the next generation as well as to adults. If we failed to abandon it, the dreadful cycle would be continuing from generation to generation. Only after we have detected both its superficial and deep symbolic meanings can we better understand Sherwood Anderson’s strong and sharp satire, his deep and wide concerns
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
The Parasite
most of the money that his father had earned by working as a laborer on neighboring farms during their ten years had been spent for remedies to cure chicken diseases, advertised products for raising chickens and various purposes to raise chickens. The egg and the chickens had eaten out what his parents earned.
The Old Unsolved Riddle
“Why eggs had to be and why from the egg came the hen who again laid the egg?” And which one comes the first, the egg or the hen? He was in fact looking into the root of the problems existed in his time. American Dream was born out from another one and cycled on. But who should take the responsibility of people’s infesting the dream? Can we find the pull the root out and stop the dreadful cycle?
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.