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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  Now, this is not exactly what you'd want to call a feminist position,
  这不完全是女权主义思想
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  although Morrison certainly is I would say a feminist writer in the largest sense of that word.
  尽管莫里森本质上就是女权主义作家
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  But what she has tried to do here, in keeping with the challenge
  但我认为这里她是在
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  that I think she must have set for herself,
  追赶自己设下的挑战
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  is to make us see Cholly complexly enough
  也就是试图让我们在乔利认罪后
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  to sympathize with him even after he commits this crime.
  发现他内心的复杂性仍心生同情
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  So she takes a certain kind of risk, but that's why she does it.
  因此从某种程度来说 她是在冒险 但这就是她的动机
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  She wants us to see him in a sympathetic light.
  她希望我们能够同情他
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  This is what a novel can do.
  这就是小说能达到的效果
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  It requires that lyrical quality of voice;
  它要求抒情的叙事口吻
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  it requires the buildup of history,
  它要求历史的整合
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  and it requires, in this scene, the return to that precise language.
  在这个场景里 它要求回归精准的语言