The Portrait of a Lady学习心得分析和总结.docx

实用汇总报告 实用汇总报告 PAGE PAGE 1 / 3 The Portrait of a Lady Like all great works of literature, The Portrait of a Ldaemdyands careful reading in order to get the full taste of its delights. However, unlike other works, it ’s not a novel of exciting action, nor does it have thrilling adventure. Many times, I just wanted to scan it and then knew the result, but it ’s not a work that can be hastily read and appreciated, but a work rich in detail, meaning, significance and creation. After finishing the book, I sat there for minutes, I was wondering and hesitating where to go and which point to write. The book can be read very simply— it’s just a description of a girl, Isabel and four men. It can also be read very deeply — the Jamesian novel and his theme. Then I had an impulse to cry, which I didn’t know exactly the reason ,for her tragic ending or for Ral’death? Based on the information from the Internet and my own understanding, here is my report. People regard Henry James’s fiction as a work of art. To him, the novel is a form complete itself. In the Preface to the New York Edition of the Novels and Tales, James provided some insights into the book. He asserted that his subject was a single character, Isabel Archer, and it was a matter of a “certain young woman affronting her destiny ”. He then pictures a house with a million windows, out of which are eyes looking out. What these eyes see, James sys is life, the human scene and the choice of subject. Actually, there are many metaphors there,and the most common one is the use of a house. In the beginning, Isabel falls in love with Garden court, for the house fulfills her ideal of a European romantic house. Later, the Palazzo Roccanera is the opposite, which is the end of her illusion. The house reflect the people. Another theme is that the youthful, passinate free American confront European society. America has no conventions, while Americans are free of conventions. Isabel disrupts them, while Osmond lives by them, but s