门罗的短篇小说《我年轻时的朋友》具有代表性,以其多部作品中反复出现的母女关系为主线;它也具有独特性,故事中的母女关系隐喻新旧两种女性文学范式。表面上看,女儿所代表的后现代文学范式通过对叙事权威的争夺和修正颠覆了母亲所代表的传统文学范式,但深入解读故事中的叙事权之争却可以看到,女儿的对抗和修正在小说结尾的翻转中变得毫无意义。这反映了门罗关于文学传统的观念,也是理解和认识门罗创作理念的关键。 Monroe’s short story The Friends of Me When I was Young is representative, with the recurrent mother-daughter relationship in many of her works as the main line; it is also unique in that the mother-daughter relationship in the story is metaphorical of the old and the new women’s literature paradigms . On the surface, the postmodern literary paradigm represented by her daughter has overturned the traditional literary paradigm represented by her mother through the scramble for and reclamation of the authority of narration. However, the in-depth interpretation of the dispute over narrative rights in the story shows that her daughter’s confrontation and rectification It becomes meaningless at the end of the novel. This reflects Monroe’s notion of literary tradition as well as the key to understanding and recognizing Monroe’s writing philosophy.