On The Writing Of Misplaced Narration In Alice Munro’s Too Much Happiness

Alice Munro(1931-),the first winner of the Nobel Prize for literature in Canada and the first short story winner in the history of the Nobel Prize for literature,is called "master of contemporary short story" by the Swedish Academy of Arts.Although the length of the work is short,it is exquisite in technique,delicate in description,profound in philosophy,and has rich meaning in the content of the novel and transcendence in the span of time and space.This ability to refine short stories to the extreme is closely related to her excellent narrative skills.Too Much Happiness is written by Munro when she is in the dark of life.Its significance is different,and it can reflect Munro’s recollection of life experience and exploration of life meaning.At the same time,the presentation of the multiple experience of life in the works is inseparable from the complex and changeable narrative mode.Although each story is written separately,it forms an organic whole in the process of presenting the dislocation of life and exploring the meaning of life.This paper attempts to regard the collection of novels as a whole,analyze its dynamic narrative form through the method of close reading,and re explore the multiple meanings of this organic whole from the perspective of dislocation narrative.The main body of the paper is divided into four parts,the first part is the fission of information delay and self growth,which can be divided into three categories: display and rendering,setting suspense and scene switching.It analyzes the hard way of self-development,persistence and disillusionment in the storm of life and the confrontation of gender discourse.The second part is the distortion of nested narrative and family ethics.Starting from the two aspects of parent-child tragedy and marriage betrayal,it points out that different narrative voices and narrative events are overlapped and juxtaposed,so that all kinds of roles and relationships in the family are always in dialogue,opposite and complementary to each other.The third part is the paradox of dual perspective and self cognition.It analyzes the difficulty of self cognition reflected in misplaced narrative by using unreliable narrative theory and the switch between children’s perspective and adults’ perspective.The fourth part is the ending abruption and the reconciliation of life.It not only inspects the novel collection as a whole,but also analyzes the abruption of the end of the novel and the rediscovery of life philosophy contained in the abruption.Through the dislocation narrative,the author explores the hidden spiritual world of the characters.