That's why she produced story after story after story that can be read

这就是为什么她创作了一个又一个
in these formal ways with these symbols that accrue meaning and

包含相同意象且能利用这些方式去阅读的故事
deepen and change over the course of the novel or the story.

那些象征性意象在众多小说中不断深入及演化
So her commitment to the New Criticism: McGurl argues that

麦格尔认为
O'Connor found the New Criticism comfortable

奥康纳之所以参与新批评运动
because Catholicism had taught her to be obedient, that it was a matter of obedience to

是因为天主教教义在告诉她
a formula that allowed her to produce what she produced on the page.

她要去按某种模式去进行创作
I would argue it differently:

我却乐意换一种方式分析这个论点
that there is something, in fact, religious about the New Criticism

其实是新批评运动中宗教的东西
that made it particularly comfortable for O'Connor to inhabit.

使奥康纳很舒适地栖息于其中
Now, I want to conclude by pointing you towards Lolita.

这节课的最后我们来简单谈谈洛丽塔
Today the question of torturing your own characters has come up.

今天我们接触到了小说人物的受难