Abstract:

The narrative structure and the narrative perspective in Alice Munro’s short story The Bear Came Over the Mountain are unique and novel. In the story, the original linear structure has been changed. Munro combines the memory narrative structure together to make the plot change between the reality and the memory. She shows the readers a different narrative structure. What’s more, Munro adopts the zero focalization perspective. It is convenient for Munro to describe all the characters. She also uses the internal focalization perspective to describe all the plots around the protagonist so that the clue is clear. The article will explain the narrative structure and perspective which are used in the story and will show how Munro used them in the story by anglicizing the main plots which are fragmented.

Keywords: Alice Munro; The Bear Came Over the Mountain; narrative structure; narrative perspective

摘 要：

加拿大女作家爱丽丝•门罗的短篇小说《熊从山那边来》中的叙事结构与视角独特新颖。小说中将原有的线性结构进行改变，门罗通过结合回忆叙事结构，穿插现实与回忆的情节向我们展示了不一样的叙事结构。而小说中采用的零聚焦叙事视角，便于门罗对每个人无的描写。并且门罗选择了内聚焦叙事视角，始终围绕男主人公展开故事情节，这使得线索清晰。本文将对小说中所采用的叙事结构与叙事视角进行诠释，并且通过对小说被片段化的情节分析展示出门罗如何运用这些叙事结构与视角。

关键词：爱丽丝•门罗； 熊从山那边来； 叙事结构； 叙述视角

1  Introduction
Alice Munro was born in Canada in 1931. She has been known for her short stories. Her first collection of stories is Dance of the Happy Shades. In 2009, Munro won the Man Booker International Prize. That same year, she published the short-story collection Too Much Happiness. In 2013, at age 82, Munro was awarded the 2013 Nobel Prize for Literature. Her short story The Bear Came Over the Mountain which has been adapted into a film Away From Her is included in the collected stories Hateship, Friendship, Courtship, Loveship, Marriage.
The Bear Came Over the Mountain was originally published in December 27, 1999. In the story, there is one couple who has been married for forty-five years.When Fiona shows signs of deteriorating memory, Grant realizes she needs to live in a nursing home. After 30 days in the nursing home, the husband Grant finds that his wife seems to forget him and develops a strong attachment to a resident named Aubrey. But because of Aubrey’s leaving, Fiona is devastated. She does not forget Aubrey easily as is told by the nurse. At last, the husband Grant decides to bring Aubrey back to Fiona. But at the moment, Fiona seems not to remember Aubrey but rather to have renewed affection for Grant.