综合英语(2)
综合英语(2)
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2025.02.10 ~ 2025.06.29
  • 南京师范大学中北学院
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第3次开课

开始:2025-02-10

截止:2025-06-29

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12/20周

成绩预发布时间 2025-06-26

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Unit 2 Read the Passage

By 胡宜雯 老师 03-25 313次浏览

In Tobias Wolff’s Say Yes, a central strain between the husband and wife is illuminated and never settled by the end of the story. The tension revolves around racism and the meaning of true love. In this story plot, point of view and irony reveal a married couple that becomes strangers.

The story is ironic. The husband says interracial couples should not marry because they have no hope of understanding each other. He ironically fails to see that he and Ann are having a hopeless failure to understand each other at the very same moment.

The husband is also left nameless by the author, emphasizing his lack of self-knowledge, and Ann’s inability to understand or truly know him.

Just as his views on interracial marriage reduce complex humans to simple colors that can never know each other, his failure to connect with his own wife in the end reduces her to a simple color moving through the dark. With the final words of the story, she becomes “a stranger” to him.

The ending suggests that both Ann and her husband are correct. The husband is correct that interracial couples can never truly know one another, but only because no one in any marriage can ever truly know their spouse. Ann, by this logic, is also correct that interracial couples should of course be allowed to marry, as their marriages are no more hopeless than those of any other couple.

What do you think of the ideas presented in the above passage? Do you agree or disagree? Why?

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  • 82240136瞿静亚 14天前

    Partly agree. But actually I think both the wife and the husband were ridiculous.They were in their 50s and  talk about this topic and broke up in the end.If i were the wife, i would enjoy the life with my husband , such as traveling. Anyway, it was the husband's choice to choose whether he want to marry a black or not. We can't rush to the end that consider that the husband was a racist.In a nutshell , a marrige always depends on emotions.

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  • 82240212王思雨 9天前

    I think the ideas presented in the above passage is great, but not entirely. I agree partly ideas. Ann and her husband just experienced something that every couples would do. Almost all couples will argue due to disagreements. But her husband is hypocritical, on the hand claim that he accepts black people and got along well with them, but on the other hand uses the guise of cultural differences to cover up the fact of he is a racist.

     

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