一、引言战争,是海明威小说一个重要的主题。由于海明威本人曾经有过丰富的人生阅历:他曾经参加过两次世界大战和西班牙内战,他自然把自己对战争的感悟融入他所创作的文学作品中。海明威闻名于世的几部长篇小说《太阳照样升起》,《永别了,武器》和《丧钟为谁而鸣》都离不开战争,都深刻地揭露了战争给人们带来的巨大的精神创伤。而在常为人所忽略的海明威的短篇小说《我躺下》里,主人公尼克·亚当斯也是战争的牺牲品。《我躺下》描述了尼克在参加第一次世界大战的过程中患了严重的失眠症,在夜间总是无法入睡,只能躺着任由“灵魂”“出窍”来进行消遣。在思绪万千中,闪现在他脑海里的时常是他小时候去一条小河边钓鱼的情景。在完全清醒时他会为所认识的人祈祷,会不由自主地回想起少年时代搬进新住房后,他和母亲一起迎接打猎归来的父亲的生活细节。情节看似简单,却意味深长。 I. Introduction The war is an important theme of Hemingway’s novels. Because Hemingway himself had had a rich life experience: he had participated in two world wars and the Spanish Civil War, and he naturally put his sentiment about the war into his literary works. Hemingway’s famous novels “The Sun Also Rises,” “Farewell to Arms,” ​​and “Whom the Bell Tolls for Who,” are inseparable from the war. All of these profoundly expose the tremendous spirit the war has brought to the people trauma. In the often neglected Hemingway’s short story “I lie down,” the protagonist Nick Adams is also the victim of the war. “I Lie Down” describes Nick suffering from severe insomnia during World War I, unable to fall asleep during the night, and can only lie amidst the “soul” “out of the way” for recreation. Of all his thoughts, it was often in his mind that he was fishing in a small river as a child. When fully awakened, he would pray for those he knew, and he could not help but recall the details of his father’s life after returning to his new home in his childhood. The plot seems simple, but meaningful.