安.波特的短篇小说一向以展现人物的内心世界见长。以《被遗弃的老祖母》为例,她的创作手法师法沃尔芙和乔伊斯的意识流,同时又糅合进狄金森想象的弥留之际的体验和弗罗斯特的人生观。也许是巧合,也可能是有意,海明威在《乞力马扎罗的雪》中将安.波特的这种融各家所长于一炉的创作手法推向了另一个高峰。 Ann. Porter’s short story has always been to show the character of the inner world known. Take “Abandoned Old Grandmother” as an example, her creative hand Falfa and Joyce’s stream of consciousness, at the same time blend into Dickinson’s experience of dying and Frost’s outlook on life. Perhaps a coincidence or a possible one, Hemingway took Ann Potter’s approach of melting his director in one furnace to another peak in Kilimanjaro’s Snow.