一,引言《一小时的故事》是美国女作家凯特·肖邦的作品,它描写了女主人公马夫人在听闻自己丈夫死后的一系列反应,以及最后当她发现自己丈夫并没有死而导致她幻想破灭,心脏病病发而死的故事。《一小时的故事》发表于1894年,由于作品所处的的特殊文化大背景,20世纪80~90年代正是女权主义运动的第三次浪潮,也是女性主义文学批评发展的第三阶段,及其另一部作品《觉醒》在女性主义作品中所处的特殊地位,使得很多人从女性主义批评的角度对《一小时的故事》进行解读。苏珊·兰瑟便是其中一位。但也有一些人对此持有不同的看法。例如,申丹教授认为这是一部关于女性摆脱婚姻枷锁、追求自由的作品:刘杰伟、唐伟胜则认为这是 I. INTRODUCTION The Story of One Hour is a work by American writer Kate Chopin describing a series of reactions after Madame Madame heard about her husband’s death and finally when she discovers that her husband did not die leading to her Delusions, heart attacks and death story. The one-hour story was published in 1894. Due to the special cultural background of the work, the third wave of the feminist movement in the 1980s and 1990s was also the third stage of the development of feminist literary criticism. And the special status of Awakening, another work in feminism, make many people interpret the one-hour story from the perspective of feminist criticism. Susan Lanser is one of them. But some people hold different opinions about it. For example, Professor Shen Dan thinks this is a work on women getting rid of shackles of marriage and pursuing freedom: Liu Jiewei and Tang Weisheng think it is