On The Psychological World In Alice Monroe 's Novels

With the Canadian writer Alice Munro wining the Nobel Prize for Literature in 2013, more and more researches on Munro have been increasing both at home and abroad.During the literary creationcareer more than 60 years, Munro has focused on the short stories. Her novella with authentic local features of Canada, depicts the ordinary common people’s daily life and pays more attention to the topic of the growth of women, marriage, family, etc., using the exquisite simplicity of the language, flexible personality narrative techniques, showing the psychological world hidden under the ordinary people’s daily life.This paper mainly studies the psychological world in Alice Munro’snovels and is divided into three parts:The first chapter analyses the the common psychological field in Munro’s novels by using the method of close reading,psychology and combing specific text.Munro’s stories takes root in daily life and shows the unique psychological world of the characters in different ages stages.The paper focuses on the analysis of the inner world of children who witnessed the death of others, of adults in the emotional swirl and of the old in the face of family alienation.It is very subtle and moving thatthepsychology of ordinary human being in Munro’short stories.The second chapter maily explors the artistry in Munro’s novelle which is used for describing the characters’ psychological activities,combing the theory of psychology and narratology and using the method of close reading of the text.Dilution the plot of the novel,the detail description fulling of sensation,generalization of psychological analysis and multi-voice narration showing three-dimensional psychology are all effective means to express the mental state of the characters.Munro makes the most use of a variety of art technique, so her novelle are full of lingering psychological atmosphere.The third chaptertry to find out why Alice Munro insists to capturing the inner world of the figure from the angle of Alice Munro’s personal life experience and the creation idea.At the same time North American literary tradition also has an important influence on the orientation of Munro’s attention to psychological description.Alice Munro’s short storieswhich are about the psychology of the characters present the secret heart of ordinary people in the original ecology style. By the research of Munro’s short stories psychological world, on the one hand it indicates Munro is able to capture the subtle mental which isn’t be noticed by others and she can reproduce the ordinary people’s survival experience in literature world; on the other hand,the literature creationg of Munro has a very good enlightenment significance to Chinese literature, especially the contemporary short stories how to express the unique psychological experience of the Chinese common people.