阅读文学巨匠约翰·厄普代克的短篇小说《分居》,会产生对婚姻、爱情、家庭、父母子女之间等一系列问题的不尽感思。尤其从我们的中国文化传统来反思这个故事的哲理,似乎相向于我们的文化传统,不是吗?我们的东方文化特别是中国文化传统中的婚姻家庭观念与以美国为代表的西方的婚姻家庭观念是大相径庭的,尽管在改革开放后,传统的婚姻家庭观念在变化,开始有了一些自由成分的不断掺入,但是,我们的传统婚姻家庭观念仍然在不同程度地约束着国 Reading the literary master John Updike’s “separation” of short stories creates endless thoughts about a series of issues such as marriage, love, family, parent-child relationship and so on. Especially from our Chinese cultural tradition to reflect on the philosophy of this story, it seems that our cultural traditions are opposite, is not it? Our oriental culture, especially the concept of marriage and family in the Chinese cultural tradition and the concept of marriage and family in the West as represented by the United States Are quite different from each other. Although the traditional concept of marriage and family is changing and some elements of freedom have been incorporated after the reform and opening up, our traditional concept of marriage and family still restrain the country with varying degrees