来自《耶鲁大学开放课程：1945年后的美国小说 第13集 第13集》
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from the 1934 movie Imitation of Life,中的一个人物名字相似 -
which has a complicated story.这电影有着复杂的剧情 -
But it's about race relations,剧情是关于种族关系的 -
and it features a little girl named Pecola电影塑造了一个名叫贝克拉的小女孩 -
who ends up passing for white她坚持认为自己是白人 -
because she so hates the blackness of her mother.因为她厌恶自己母亲是个黑人 -
So, Pecola's mother absorbed that white aesthetic,所以 贝克拉的母亲接受了白色审美 -
projected it on to her daughter,并映射在她的女儿身上 -
and her daughter finally so longs to inhabit that story而她的女儿长期沉溺于这个故事之中 -
that she goes to Soaphead Church.以至于她找到了苏普海德·丘其 -
And this is how she ends up,这便是她的最终选择 -
and the cost of inhabiting that story is derangement.而沉溺于故事的代价便是精神错乱