内容简介

艾丽斯·门罗最新作品《致生活》依旧是讲述平凡人的生活。本文作者笔下的主人公是一名年轻的妈妈格莱塔。格莱塔是一名女诗人，和工程师皮特婚后育有一女。作为诗人的她和身为工程师的丈夫在性格上有许多不同的地方。不同的性格导致他们婚后的生活中存在着很多的冲突和误解。后来在一次作家的派对中，格莱塔遇见了志同道合的记者哈里斯。分别后，格莱塔对哈里斯念念不忘。在经过一段痛苦的思念后，格莱塔想趁着帮朋友照看房子的机会前去和哈里斯见面。火车上她结实了两位演员。趁着女儿凯蒂睡着的时候，格莱塔和其中一位男演员发生了关系。回来的时候，凯蒂不见了。着急万分的格莱塔四处寻找着女儿，痛苦自责时刻折磨着她,她十分后悔。幸运地是最终格莱塔找到了女儿，得到了女儿的原谅。此时的格莱塔突然意识到，生活的真谛其实就是平平淡淡。

INTRODUCTION

Alice Munro’s latest novel Dear Life tells the story of common person. The protagonist is a young mummy Greta. She is a poet. After married a engineer Peter, they have a daughter Katy. She and her husband have some different in character. Different character caused lots of conflicts and misunderstand in their life. Later in a writers’ party, she met a journalist Harris who has some similarities with her. After they separated, Greta could not forget Harris. After a long period of missing, Greta wanted to go to meet Harris by the chance of helping her friend look after the house. On the train Greta met two actors. She had sex with one of the actors when her daughter was sleeping. When she came back, she found that Katy was missing, she was very worried, looking for Katy everywhere. During that time, self-accusation and mental pain tormented her. She was very regretful. Fortunately she found her daughter and Katy forgave her. At the moment, Greta realized that the essence of life was simple.