一个人可能拥有舒适豪华的宅邸,可能拥有温婉可人的家眷,但这些未必就构成他真正的家园。真正的家园是精神上的,是很多人终其一生也难以得到的心灵上的归宿。(孙萍,2005)其实不仅拥有舒适生活的人,那些平凡人,甚至肉体或精神有缺陷的人都在寻找心灵的归宿,比如艾丽丝·门罗的短篇小说《脸》中的主人公。门罗是加拿大最负盛名的女作家之一,被誉为加拿大短篇小说之王和“加拿大契科夫”。2013年门罗 A person may have a comfortable luxury mansion, may have a gentle and warm family, but these may not constitute his real home. The real home is spiritual, the spiritual end-result that many people find difficult to obtain throughout their lives. (Sun Ping, 2005) In fact, not only people who have a comfortable life, those ordinary people, even physically or mentally flawed people are looking for spiritual end, such as the heroine of Alice Monroe’s short story Face. Monroe is one of Canada’s most prestigious women writers, known as the king of Canadian short stories and “Canada Chekov”. 2013 Monroe