혹시 글의 context가 필요하실까 하여 지문 전부 다 가져와봤어요..
Mary Barton,
particularly in its early chapters, is a moving response to the suffering of
the industrial worker in the England of the 1840s. What is most impressive
about the book is the intense and painstaking effort made by the author,
Elizabeth Gaskell, to convey the experience of everyday life in working class
homes. Her method is partly documentary in nature: the novel includes such
features as a carefully annotate reproduction of dialect, the exact details of
food prices in an account of a tea party, an itemized description of the
furniture of the Bartons’ living room, and a transcription (again annotated) of
the ballad “The Oldham Weaver”. The interest of this record is considerable,
even though the method has a slightly distancing effect.
As a member of the middle class, Gaskell could hardly help
approaching working-class life as an outside observer and a reporter, and the
reader of the novel is always conscious of this fact. But there is genuine
imaginative re-creation in her accounts of the walk in Green Heys Fields, of
tea at the Bartons’ house, and of John Barton and his friend’s discovery of the
starving family in the cellar in the chapter “Poverty and Death.” Indeed, for a
similarly convincing re-creation of such families’ emotions and responses
(which are more crucial than the material details on which the mere reporter is
apt to concentrate), the English novel had to wait 60 years for the early
writing of D. H. Lawrence. If Gaskell never quite conveys the sense of full
participation that would completely authenticate this aspect of Mary Bartons,
she still brings to these scenes an intuitive recognition of feelings that has
its own sufficient conviction.
The chapter “Old Aice’s History” brilliantly dramatizes the
situation of that early generation of workers brought from the villages and the
countryside to the urban industrial centers. The account of Job Leigh, the
weaver and naturalist who is devoted to the study of biology, vividly embodies
one kind of response to an urban industrial environment: an affinity for living
things that hardens, by its very contrast with its environment, into a kind of
crankiness. The early chapters—about factory workers walking out in spring into
Green Heys Fields, about Alice Wilson, remembering in her cellar the
twig-gathering for brooms in the native village that she will never again see,
about job Leigh, intent on his impaled insects—capture the characteristic
responses of a generation to the new and crushing
experience of industrialism.The other early chapters eloquently portray the development
of the instinctive cooperation with each other that was already becoming an
important tradition among workers.
제가 해석이 어려운 세가지 문장이 저 위의 bold 된 곳들이에요 ㅠㅠ
1) As a member of the middle class, Gaskell could hardly help approaching working-class life as an outside observer and a reporter, and the reader of the novel is always conscious of this fact.
- hardly가 거의 ~할 수 없다 이런 뜻으로 아는데... 그렇게 해석하면 전체적 맥락이랑 말이 안되는 것 같아서요.. Gaskell이 중산층이라서 노동계급의 삶을 외부인으로서만 보았다 라고 해야할 것 같은데... hardly가 들어가면 그 반대가 되는 것 아닌가요?ㅜㅜ could hardly help 를 어떻게 해석해야할지 모르겠어요...
2) If Gaskell never quite conveys the sense of full participation that would completely authenticate this aspect of Mary Bartons, she still brings to these scenes an intuitive recognition of feelings that has its own sufficient conviction.
- 이 문장은 그냥 이해가 안가요.. 만약 Gaskell이 결코 메리 바튼의 aspect를 완전하게 입증할 수 있을만한 완전한 참여의 센스를 convey하지 못했다면???? 그 다음은 더 이해가 안가요ㅠㅠ
3) The account of Job Leigh, the weaver and naturalist who is devoted to the study of biology, vividly embodies one kind of response to an urban industrial environment: an affinity for living things that hardens, by its very contrast with its environment, into a kind of crankiness.
- 이 문장은 콜론 뒤에가 이해가 안가요ㅠㅠ by 부분은 따로 생각했을때.. an affinity for living thins that hardens into a kind of crankiness가 무슨 말인지 모르겠어요...
결국 세번째 문장은 문제랑 직결되는데... 그 문제가 이거에요 ㅠㅠ
Which of the following is most closely analogous to Job Leigh in Mary Barton, as that character is described in the passage?
A. An entomologist who collected butterflies as a child
B. A small-town attorney whose hobby is nature photography
C. A young man who leaves his family's dairy farm to start his own business
D. A city dweller who raises exotic plants on the roof of his apartment building
E. A union organizer who works in a textile mill under dangerous conditions
답은 D입니다.ㅜㅜ
도와주시길 부탁드립니다ㅠㅠㅠㅠㅠ