Analysis of the Symbolism in The loons

作     者：郭德胜 

作者机构：广西师范学院外国语学院广西南宁530001 

出 版 物：《海外英语》 (Overseas English)

年 卷 期：2011年第9X期

页      面：295-296页

学科分类：0502[文学-外国语言文学] 05[文学] 

主　　题：living condition symbolism pun theme 

摘      要：Margaret Laurence,the famous Canadian woman writer,is regarded as a founding mother of Canadian literature.The loons is one of her famous *** story is about Piquette Tonnerre,a half-bred girl who grows up under harsh circumstances in a white society that suppresses *** seek to fit into the main currents of culture but is marginalized by the white dominated society,which has always been highlighted by the author in many of her major *** most prominent feature of this novel is its symbolism,namely the parallel of the loons and *** article gives a tentative interpretation of the symbolism between the loons and the heroine piquette from three aspects:the environment,temperament and destiny.