Postmodern literary texts have been exploring characters that are whimsically strange. The tacit plots in the postmodern textual space enable the writers to construct and manifest the mental space of the characters in the textual world. The Rise of Life on Earth written by Joyce Carol Oates concocts the emotional estrangement of the protagonist, Kathleen Hennessy. Decrypting the text amplifies the unabating efforts of Kathleen to survive in a world that has been portrayed as a larger, repressive and pernicious family. Her masquerade to be a shy, passive and well-behaved girl hides the menacing vengeance that has culminated as a result of abuses and afflictions. Her mental spaces are constructed during the course of narration. This paper purports to scrutinize the fragmented psyche of Kathleen and the conceptual integration of mental space and textual space that replicates both social and individualistic reality and expands the understanding of Oates’ text.

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乔伊斯·卡罗尔·奥茨的《地球上生命的崛起》中凯瑟琳的精神分裂

后现代文学文本一直在探索异想天开的奇怪人物。后现代文本空间中的默契情节使作者能够在文本世界中建构和表现人物的心理空间。乔伊斯·卡罗尔·奥茨 (Joyce Carol Oates) 撰写的《地球生命的崛起》炮制了主人公凯瑟琳·轩尼诗 (Kathleen Hennessy) 的情感疏离。解密文本放大了凯瑟琳在一个被描绘成一个更大、压制和有害的家庭的世界中生存的不懈努力。她伪装成一个害羞、被动和乖巧的女孩，隐藏了由于虐待和痛苦而达到顶峰的险恶报复。她的心理空间是在叙述过程中构建起来的。