尤多拉·韦尔蒂是美国南方文学重量级作家,以短篇小说享誉世界,其影响超越了南方文学的地域性,使她成为世界级的作家。然而她的作品均以“小”为焦点,描述动荡不安的南方社会。采用以小见大的叙事方法,见微知著的叙事结构,微言大义的叙述语言,微妙玄通的叙事方式,阐述其主题思想和社会意义。 Udola Welti, a heavyweight American Southern literature writer who enjoys world-wide reputation for short stories, has gone beyond the regional nature of Southern literature and made her a world-class writer. However, her works all focus on “small” to describe the turbulent Southern society. It adopts the narrative method of seeing the big things, see the narrative structure of the micro knowing, the narrative language of the subtle meanings and the narrative way of the subtle Xuan Tong, expounds its theme and social significance.