文档介绍：1 GRE 经典背诵文选之一 Thomas Hardy's impulses asa writer, all of which he indulged in his novels, were numerous and divergent, and they did not always work together in harmony. Hardy was to some degree (5)interested in exploring his characters' psycholo-gies, though impelled less by curiosity than by sympathy. Occasionally he felt the impulse edy (in all its detached coldness) as well as the impulse to farce, but he was more often (10) inclined to see tragedy and record it. He was also inclined to literary realism in the several senses of that phrase. He wanted to describe ordinary human beings; he wanted to speculate on their dilemmas rationally (and, unfortu- (15) nately, even schematically); and he wanted to record precisely the material universe. Finally, he wanted to be more than a realist. He wanted to transcend what he considered to be the banality of solely recording things exactly and (20) to express as well his awareness of the occult and the strange . In his novels these various impulses were sacrificed to each other inevitably and often. inevitably, because Hardy did not care in the (25) way that novelists such as Flaubert or James cared, and therefore took path of least resistance. Thus, one impulse often surrendered toa fresher one and, unfortunately, instead of exacting promise, simply disappeared. (30) A desire to throw over reality a light that never was might give wa