关键词: 门罗, 《播弄》, 叙事时间, 叙事审美

Abstract: As a master of Canadian short stories， Alice Munro won Nobel Prize in Literature in 2013 for her exquisite writing skills in female narration. “Tricks” is one of her representative short stories， telling a sad love story about a couple of “strange” lovers who cannot spend the rest of their lives together because of the trick of the fate. Narrative strategy is a major feature of the novel， especially the narrative time and it is the finishing touch of the novel. This paper aims to employ Genettes narrative time theory to explore the narrative time and narrative aesthetic art of Monroes “Tricks” from three aspects: time sequence， time distance and frequency， so as to help readers better understand Monroes writing ideas， appreciate the strategies and skills of the authors narrative time.

Key words: Monroe, “Tricks”, narrative time, narrative aesthetics