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PAGE PAGE 2 Name: 徐璐 Number: 12010011056 c班 英语小说选读 Teacher:刘亚娜 Date: 2012-12-30 The egg “The egg” was written by Sherwood Anderson, an American writer. He chose a little boy as the narrator. In my opinion, the author wants to make readers think deeply and to dig out the theme of story. The tale is talking about struggle of sad history of a couple. At the beginning, father works as a farmhand. When he was thirty-fifty, he married a woman. After their only child born, “they become ambitious”. “Mother induce father to give up his place and embark on an independent enterprise of his own.”——chicken raising. It failed. But they did not give up. They began another. “They moved to the town of Bedwill, Ohio, and embarked in the restaurant business.” It still failed. In this story, symbolism is obviously important element. The egg has a variety of meanings. Next, I am going to analyze symbolism and character This story is told by a boy. On his point of view, he saw a world which different from adult had seen. At first, his father, boy said, was a cheerful and kindly man by nature. He worked as a farmhand, quite happy in his position in life. But his mother was quite ambitious for his father and himself. On the narrator’s part, because his parents were busy charging their chicken farm and take less care of him. Then “he became a gloomy man inclined to seethe darker side of life.” The egg here stands for a thief. As far as I am concerned, child should be na?ve and puerile when he was young. He should enjoy his careless childhood. Nevertheless, the thief was just breaking into boy’s life and disturbing his childhood, stealing away nature of boy and making him become premature. The boy found that “chicken eats quantities of corn and meal bought by the sweat of father’s brow, gets diseases, stands looking with stupid eyes at the sun, become sick and dies.”