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【导读】  经典短篇小说《回家》(Going Home)是1971年10月14日刊登在《纽约邮报》上的一个感人的故事。这个故事引出了以黄丝带迎接亲人回家。认真阅读这篇美文对比中外文化中对待重获自由的被囚禁者的态度的异同。
Going Home
I first heard this story a few years ago from a girl I had met in New York's Greenwich Village.Probably the story is one of those mysterious bits of folklore that reappear every few years,to be told a new in one form or another.However,I still like to think that it really did happen,somewhere,sometime.
They were going to Fort Lauderdale—three boys and three girls—and when they boarded the bus,they were carrying sandwiches and wine in paper bags,dreaming of golden beaches as the gray cold of New York vanished behind them.
As the bus passed through New Jersey,they began to notice Vingo.He sat in front of them,dressed in a plain,ill­fitting suit,never moving,his dusty face masking his age.He kept chewing the inside of his lip a lot,frozen into some personal cocoon of silence.
Deep into the night,outside Washington,the bus pulled into Howard Johnson's,and everybody got off except Vingo.He sat rooted in his seat,and the young people began to wonder about him,trying to imagine his life:perhaps he was a sea captain,a runaway from his wife,an old soldier going home.When they went back to the bus,one of the girls sat beside him and introduced herself.
“We're going to Florida,” she said brightly.“I hear it's really beautiful.”
“It is,” he said quietly,as if remembering something he had tried to forget.
“Want some wine?” she said.He smiled and took a swig.He thanked her and retreated again into his silence.After a while,she went back to the others,and Vingo nodded in sleep.
In the morning,they awoke outside another Howard Johnson's,and this time Vingo went in.The girl insisted that he join them.He seemed very shy,and ordered black coffee and smoked nervously as the young people chattered about sleeping on beaches.When they returned to the bus,the girl sat with Vingo again,and after a while,slowly and painfully,he told his story.He had been in jail in New York for the past four years,and now he was going home.
“Are you married?”
“I don't know.”
“You don't know?” she said.
“Well,when I was in jail I wrote to my wife,” he said.“I told her that I was going to be away a long time,and that if she couldn't stand it,if the kids kept asking questions,if it hurt too much,well,she could just forget me,I'd understand.Get a new guy,I said she's a wonderful woman,really something and forget about me.I told her she didn't have to write me for nothing.And she didn't.Not for three and a half years.”
“And you're going home now,not knowing?”
“Yeah,” he said shyly.“Well,last week,when I was sure the parole was coming through,I wrote her again.We used to live in Brunswick,just before Jacksonville,and there's a big oak tree just as you come into town.I told her that if she'd take me back,she should put a yellow handkerchief on the tree,and I'd get off and come home.If she didn't want me,forget it—no handkerchief,and I'd go on through.”
“Wow,” the girl exclaimed.
She told the others,and soon all of them were in it,caught up in the approach of Brunswick,looking at the pictures Vingo showed them of his wife and three children.The woman was handsome in a plain way,the children still unformed in the much­handled snapshots.
Now they were 20 miles from Brunswick,and the young people took over window seats on the right side,waiting for the approach of the great oak tree.The bus acquired a dark,hushed mood,full of the silence of absence and lost years.Vingo stopped looking,tightening his face into the ex­con's mask,as if fortifying himself against still another disappointment.
Then Brunswick was ten miles,and then five.Then,suddenly,all of the young people were up out of their seats,screaming and shouting and crying,doing small dances of joy.All except Vingo.
Vingo sat there stunned,looking at the oak tree.It was covered with yellow handkerchiefs—20 of them,30 of them,maybe hundreds,a tree that stood like a banner of welcome billowing in the wind.As the young people shouted,the old con rose and made his way to the front of the bus to go home.
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