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  3. Mary Barton, particularly in its early chapters, is a moving response to the suffering of the industrial worker in the England o

Mary Barton, particularly in its early chapters, is a moving response to the suffering of the industrial worker in the England o

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问题    Mary Barton, particularly in its early chapters, is a moving response to the suffering of the industrial worker in the England of the 1840’s. What is most impressive about the book is the intense and painstaking effort made by the author, Elizabeth Gaskell, to convey the experience of everyday life in working-class homes. Her method is partly documentary in nature; the novel includes such features as a carefully annotated reproduction of dialect, the exact details of food prices in an account of a tea party, an itemized description of the furniture of the Bartons’ living room, and a transcription of the ballad " The Oldham Weaver. " The interest of this record is considerable, even though the method has a slightly distancing effect.
   As a member of the middle class, Gaskell could hardly help approaching working-class life as an outside observer and a reporter, and the reader of the novel is always conscious of this fact. But there is genuine imaginative re-creation in her accounts of the walk in Green Heys Fields, of tea at the Bartons’ house, and of John Barton and his friend’s discovery of the starving family in the cellar in the chapter " Poverty and Death. " Indeed , for a similarly convincing re-creation of such families’ emotions and responses (which are more crucial than the material details on which the mere reporter is apt to concentrate) , the English novel had to wait 60 years for the early writing of D. H. Lawrence. If Gaskell never quite conveys the sense of full participation that would completely authenticate this aspect of Mary Barton, she still brings to these scenes an intuitive recognition of feelings that has its own sufficient conviction.
   The chapter "Old Alice’s History" brilliantly dramatizes the situation of that early generation of workers brought from the villages and the countryside to the urban industrial centers. The account of Job Legh, the weaver and naturalist who is devoted to the study of biology, vividly embodies one kind of response to an urban industrial environment: an affinity for living things that hardens, by its very contrast with its environment, into a kind of crankiness. The early chapters—about factory workers walking out in spring into Green Heys Fields; about Alice Wilson, remembering in her cellar the twig-gathering for brooms in the native village that she will never again see; about Job Legh, intent on his impaled insects—capture the characteristic responses of a generation to the new and crushing experience of industrialism. The other early chapters eloquently portray the development of the instinctive cooperation with each other that was already becoming an important tradition among workers.
It can be inferred that the author of the passage believes that Mary Barton might have been an even better novel if Gaskell had______.
选项 A、concentrated on the emotions of a single character
B、made no attempt to re-create experiences of which she had no firsthand knowledge
C、made no attempt to reproduce working-class dialects
D、managed to transcend her position as an outsider
答案D
解析 推理判断题。第一段提到，作者对《玛丽-巴顿》多持肯定态度，但在段末提到其细致的生活描写显得有些距离感，第二段开头解释这是因为作者本人是中产阶级，很难作为一个外在的观察者和报告人，所以若作者能转变身份，真正成为一个外在的观察者或报告人时，她就能写出更好的《玛丽-巴顿》。故答案为[D]项。
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