有愛就能成家嗎?

Abstract

Abstract This article aims to compare the three stories: Mark Steven Hess’s Where You have Been, Where You are Going, Ernest Hemingway’s Hills Like White Elephants, and John Updike’s The Orphaned Swimming Pool. This article respectively discusses the theme of love and its relation to the construction of home in the three stories and focuses on how the distinctive dealing ways of solving problems affect what kind of home each character has at the end of the story. This article includes five paragraphs. The first paragraph briefly introduces the aim of the article. From the second to the fourth paragraph, I demonstrate what problems the characters face, how the characters deal with these problems, and what kind of home they have at the end of the story. Finally, the report considers that characters love for the home makes them strong enough to deal their problems, no matter how different the results are in comparison to their expectation.

摘要 本文旨在比較三個故事:《何去何從》（Where You have Been, Where You are Going, 1988）、《白象似的群山》（Hills Like White Elephants, 1927）、《孤池》（The Orphaned Swimming Pool, 1970）中，對於愛與家的意象。透過這樣子比較，我們可以看出「愛」不僅是建構一個家非常重要的要素，它還促使人們解決困難、幫助人們建構夢寐以求的家，但「愛」卻不是「成家」的保證，「愛」有時反而會使家破滅，或是使人們在情感中傷的更重。本文共分成五個段落，第一段簡述愛與家，這兩個意象在這三篇文章中的關係；第二段到第四段，則依序論述三個故事的內容，以及角色們如何處理對於家的愛，並剖析經由這樣子的解決方式，會如何影響角色們最後所擁有的家；最後一段則是總結，比較三篇故事之間的關聯性。由此可知，「愛」是種非常奇特的元素，它會使人強大，讓人們極力去守護與捍衛自己珍惜的事物，即便結果可能不如預期。