The Gilded Six-Bits (6)

The Gilded Six-Bits (6)

109) It was almost six months later Missie May took to bed and Joe went and got his mother to come wait on the house.

* take to bed; 해산하러자리에 눕다

거의 6개월이 흘러서 미시메이가 해산하러 자리에 누웠고, 조는 해산을 도와 달라고 어머니를 불렀다.
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110) Missie May was delivered of a fine boy. Her travail was over when Joe come in from work one morning. His mother and the old woman were drinking great bowls of coffee around the fire in the kitchen.

* travail: 진통, 산고를 격다

미시메이는 예쁜 사내아이를 낳았다. 조가 일을 마치고 집에 당도했을때 산고는 끝난 후였다. 그의 어머니와 다른 노련한여자가 부엌 화롯불 앞에서 커피를 마시는 중이었다.

111) The minute Joe came into the room his mother called him aside.

"How did Missie May make out?" he asked quickly.

메이가 잘 해냈죠(make out)?

"Who, dat gal? She strong as a ox. She gointer have plenty mo'. We done fixed her wid de sugar and lard to sweeten her for de nex' one."

* fix: 음식을 차려주다.

누구? 황소처럼 튼튼해. 몇이라도 더 낳을 것 같은걸. 다음 애낳을 걸 생각해서 설탕과 돼지기름(산후 보양식 인듯 함)을 차려줬단다.

Joe stood silent awhile.

조는 말없이 서있었다.

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112) "You ain't ask 'bout de baby, Joe. You oughter be mighty proud cause he sho is de spittin' image of yuh, son. Dat's yourn all right, if you never git another one, dat un is yourn. And you know Ah'm mighty proud too, son, cause Ah never thought well of you marryin' Missie May cause her ma used tuh fan her foot round right smart and Ah been mighty skeered dat Missie May wuz gointer git misput on her road."

* spittin' image (spirit and image):
* fan foot around:
* mis-put on her road:

아기에 대해 아무것도 안물어보는거니, 조. 자랑스럽세 생각해라. 너를 꼭 빼닮았어. ... 알다시피 나도 자랑스럽다(확신한다) 아들아. 네가 미시메이랑 결혼한다고 할때 걔 엄마 행실이 좀 그래서(fan foot around) 맘에 안들었잖니. 미시메이도 헛짓거리 할까봐 걱정 했단다(mis-put on her road).

113) Joe said nothing. He fooled around the house till late in the day, then, just before he went to work, he went and stood at the foot of the bed and asked his wife how she felt. He did this every day during the week.

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114) On Saturday he went to Orlando to make his market. It had been a long time since he had done that.

115) Meat and lard, meal and flour, soap and starch. Cans of corn and tomatoes. All the staples. He fooled around town for a while and bought bananas and apples. Way after while he went around to the candy store.

"Hello, Joe," the clerk greeted him. "Ain't seen you in a long time."

"Nope, Ah ain't been heah. Been round in spots and places."

"Want some of them molasses kisses you always buy?"

"Yessuh."

He threw the gilded half dollar on the counter.

"Will dat spend?"

"What is it, Joe? Well, I'll be doggone! A gold-plated four-bit piece. Where'd you git it, Joe?"

"Offen a stray nigger dat come through Eatonville. He had it on his watch chain for a charm--goin' round making out iss gold money. Ha ha! He had a quarter on his tiepin and it wuz all golded up too. Tryin' to fool people. Makin' out he so rich and everything. Ha! Ha! Tryin' to tole off folkses wives from home."

"How did you git it, Joe? Did he fool you, too?"

"Who, me? Naw suh! He ain't fooled me none. Know whut Ah done? He come round me wid his smart talk. Ah hauled off and knocked 'im down and took his old four-bits away from 'im. Gointer buy my wife some good ole lasses kisses wid it. Gimme fifty cents worth of dem candy kisses."

"Fifty cents buys a mighty lot of candy kisses, Joe. Why don't you split it up and take some chocolate bars, too? They eat good, too."

"Yessuh, dey do, but Ah wants all dat in kisses. Ah got a lil boy chile home now. Tain't a week old yet, but he kin suck a sugar tit and maybe eat one them kisses hisself."

Joe got his candy and left the store. The clerk turned to the next customer.

조는 사탕을 받아들고 가게를 나왔다. 점원은 다른 손님을 맞으며,

"Wisht I could be like these darkies. Laughin' all the time. Nothin' worries 'em."

"이 검둥이들 같으면 좋겠어. 맨날 웃고 있잖아. 세상 걱정 하나없어."

(손님인 조가 점원에게 대답할 때, "Who, me? Naw suh!"라고 하는 것을 봐서 백인 인듯 하다. 백인 점원이 실실 웃는 흑인들을 비웃는 투 다.)

Back in Eatonville, Joe reached his own front door. There was the ring of singing metal on wood. Fifteen times. Missie May couldn't run to the door, but she crept there as quickly as she could.

이튼빌로 돌아온 조는 집앞 문에 당도했다. 나무에 떨어지는 열다섯번의 금속성 소리가 들렸다. 미시메이는 문간으로 달려 갈 수 없었다. 그녀는 온힘을 다해 문간으로 기어갔다. (그녀는 산후조리 중)

"Joe Banks, Ah hear you chunkin' money in mah do'way. You wait till Ah got mah strength back and Ah'm gointer fix you for dat."

* fix: 되돌려 놓다.

"조 뱅크스. 내 문간에 동전 던지는 소리 들었어. 내가 기운을 차려서 그전처럼 잘해줄께."

(1933)

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The Gilded Six-Bits (5)

The Gilded Six-Bits (5)

93) From beyond the no-man's land between them came a voice. A strange voice that yesterday had been Joe's.
그 둘 사이에 아무도 없는 저 먼곳에서 한 목소리가 들려왔다. 어재까지 조의 목소리 였지만 지금은 낮선 목소리다.

"Missie May, ain't you gonna fix me no breakfus'?"

* fix: 음식을 차리다.

"미시메이 아침밥 안차릴거요?"

She sprang out of bed.

그녀는 침대에서 벌떡 일어났다.

"Yeah, Joe. Ah didn't reckon you wuz hongry."
"Yeah, Joe. I didn't recognize you would hungry."

"네, 조. 당신이 배고풀 거라고 생각 못했어요."

No need to die today. Joe needed her for a few more minutes anyhow.

오늘 죽을 필요는 없지. 조는 어쨌든 그녀를 좀더 원했다.
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94) Soon there was a roaring fire in the cookstove. Water bucket full and two chickens killed. Joe loved fried chicken and rice. She didn't deserve a thing and good Joe was letting her cook him some breakfast. She rushed hot biscuits to the table as Joe took his seat.

95) He ate with his eyes in his plate. No laughter, no banter.

"Missie May, you ain't eatin' yo' breakfus'."
"당신은 아침 안먹을거요."

"Ah don't choose none, Ah thank yuh."

96) His coffee cup was empty. She sprang to refill it. When she turned from the stove and bent to set the cup beside Joe's plate, she saw the yellow coin on the table between them. She slumped into her seat and wept into her arms.

그의 커피잔이 빈 것을 알고 그녀는 벌떡 일어났다. 그녀가 화로에서 뒤돌아 조의 접시에 몸을 숙였을 때, 테이블 위 둘 사이에 노란동전이 놓여있을 것을 봤다.(조는 밥갑을 지불 함) 그녀는 의자에 털썩 주저앉았다. 그리고 두 팔을 감싸안고 흐느꼈다.

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97) Presently Joe said calmly,

"Missie May, you cry too much. Don't look back lak Lot's wife and turn to salt."

"미시메이. 너무 울지 말아요. 그리고 롯의 아내처럼 뒤돌아보지 말아요. 소금이 될테니까" (후회하다 쓸모없이 되지-죽다-말라는 뜻인가?)

98) The sun, the hero of every day, the impersonal old man that beams as brightly on death as on birth, came up every morning and raced across the blue dome and dipped into the sea of fire every morning. Water ran downhill and birds nested.

매일아침 마다 삶만큼이나 죽음에 대해서도 밝게 비추는(생사를 초월한듯이) 무심한(impersonal: 냉담한) 늙은이 같은 태양이 떠올랐다. 그리곤 파란 돔을 가로질러 불의 바다(석양의 황혼)로 빠져들어갔다. 물은 아래로 흐르고 새들은 둥지를 틀었다. (조와 메이 사이에 끔찍한 일이 벌어졌지만 세상은 무심하게 돌아간다.)
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99) Missie knew why she didn't leave Joe. She couldn't. She loved him too much, but she could not understand why Joe didn't leave her. He was polite, even kind at times, but aloof.

미시메이는 남편을 사랑했기에 떠나지 못했지만(죄책감이 아니라 사랑해서) 조가 외 그녀를 떠나지 않는지 모르겠다. 그는 공손했고 늘 그랬던 것처럼 친절했다. 하지만 냉담했다(aloof).

100) There were no more Saturday romps. No ringing silver dollars to stack beside her plate. No pockets to rifle. In fact, the yellow coin in his trousers was like a monster hiding in the cave of his pockets to destroy her.

101) She often wondered if he still had it, but nothing could have induced her to ask nor yet to explore his pockets to see for herself. Its shadow was in the house whether or no.

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102) One night Joe came home around midnight and complained of pains in the back. He asked Missie to rub him down with liniment. It had been three months since Missie had touched his body and it all seemed strange. But she rubbed him. Grateful for the chance. Before morning youth triumphed and Missie exulted. But the next day, as she joyfully made up their bed, beneath her pillow she found the piece of money with the bit of chain attached.

어느날 밤 조가 짐으로 찾아왔다. 허리가 아푸다면서 문질러 달라고 했다. 지난번 그의 몸을 만져본지 3개월이 지났고 아주 낮설었다. 그녀는 그것(집에 와준것) 만으로도 기뻣다. 아침이 되기 전에 젊음이 승리했다.(이성보다 욕정의 승리) 그녀는 아주 기뻣다(exult: 기뻐날뛰다). 다음날 그녀가 침대를 정리하다가 베게 아래서 (조가 놓아둔) 동전이 메달린 시계줄을 발견했다.
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103) Alone to herself, she looked at the thing with loathing, but look she must. She took it into her hands with trembling and saw first thing that it was no gold piece. It was a gilded half dollar. Then she knew why Slemmons had forbidden anyone to touch his gold. He trusted village eyes at a distance not to recognize his stickpin as a gilded quarter, and his watch charm as a four-bit piece.

* loathe: 몹시 싫어하다

그녀홀로 남겨진 물건을 바라보기 괴로웠지만 볼수밖에 없었다. 떨리는 손으로, 처음으로 그것이 금이 아니란 것을 알게됐다. 그저 도금된(가짜) 반 달라 동전이었다. (가짜였기에) 슬레머가 아무도 만지지 못하게 했던 이유를 알게 됐다. ............

104) She was glad at first that Joe had left it there. Perhaps he was through with her punishment. They were man and wife again.

그녀는 처음으로 조에게 고마웠다. 아마 그는 그녀에게 댓가를 치루려고 했으리라(깨닳게 하려고 했으리라). 그들은 이제 남편과 아내로 되돌아 갔다.

Then another thought came clawing at her. He had come home to buy from her as if she were any woman in the longhouse. Fifty cents for her love.

* claw: 발톱. 할퀴다.

하지만 어떤 생각이 그녀를 할퀴고지나갔다. 그는 창녀 취급했다는것을. 오십센트에 사랑을 샀다는 것을.

As if to say that he could pay as well as Slemmons. She slid the coin into his Sunday pants pocket and dressed herself and left his house.

슬레먼 처럼 값을 치뤘다고 말하려는 것 같았다. 그녀는 동전을 그의 일요일(교회갈때 입는) 바지 주머니에 넣고는 그의 집을 떠났다.
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105) Halfway between her house and the quarters she met her husband's mother, and after a short talk she turned and went back home.

그녀의 집과 막사 중간쯤에서 그녀 남편의 어머니(시어머니)를 만났다. 약간 이야기를 나눈후 집으로 되돌아 갔다.

Never would she admit defeat to that woman who prayed for it nightly.

밤마다 헤어지길 기도할지도 모르는 시어머니에게 지는 꼴을 보여주지 않으리라.

If she had not the substance of marriage she had the outside show.

결혼의 본질을 갖지 못했더라도 겉으로는 보여줘야 했다.

Joe must leave her. She let him see she didn't want his old gold four-bits, too.

(떠나려면) 남자가 떠나야지. 그녀는 남편이준 금동전을 원하지 않다는 것을 보여주고 싶었다.

* 조를 떠나려고 맘먹었다가 다시 집으로 돌아 갔다. 사이가 좋지 않은 시어머니에서 지는 꼴 보여주기 싫었다. 시어머니를 보니 오기가 생겼다.

106) She saw no more of the coin for some time though she knew that Joe could not help finding it in his pocket.

그의 주머니에 더이상 동전이 남아 있지 않았다는 것을 알기도 했지만 그후 그녀는 더이상 동전을 보지 못했다.

But his health kept poor, and he came home at least every ten days to be rubbed.

하지만 그의 허리통이 낳지 않았고 열흘에 한번 꼴로 집으로 와서 허리찜질을 받았다.

107) The sun swept around the horizon, trailing its robes of weeks and days. One morning as Joe came in from work, he found Missie May chopping wood. Without a word he took the ax and chopped a huge pile before he stopped.

"You ain't got no business choppin' wood, and you know it."

나무 패기는 당신이 할일이 아니지. 당신도 알잖소?

"How come? Ah been choppin' it for de last longest."

"안그럼? 지난 한동안 나무패기는 내일이었잖아요"

"Ah ain't blind. You makin' feet for shoes."

""내가 장님인줄 아나. 애 가졌으면서"

"Won't you be glad to have a lil baby chile, Joe?"

"아기 가져서 기쁘죠, 조?"

"You know dat 'thout astin' me."

"알면서 내게 묻는거요"

"Iss gointer be a boy chile and de very spit of you."

"당신닮은 남자애 였음 좋겠어요"

"You reckon, Missie May?"

"그리 생각하오, 미시메이??"

"Who else could it look lak?"

"안그럼 누굴 닮겠어요?

108) Joe said nothing, but he thrust his hand deep into his pocket and fingered something there.

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다음: 6

[감상] 'The Gilded Six-bits' 'fix', 단편소설에서 한 단어의 위력

The Gilded Six-Bits (4)

The Gilded Six-Bits (4)

66) It was Saturday night once more before Joe could parade his wife in Slemmons's ice cream parlor again. He worked the night shift and Saturday was his only night off.

* 자기 아내를 데리고 아이스크림 가게로 퍼레이드를 하는 남편.

67) Every other evening around six o'clock he left home, and dying dawn saw him hustling home around the lake, where the challenging sun flung a flaming sword from east to west across the trembling water.

여느 때라면 저녁 여섯시면 집을 나선다. 의기양양한 태양이 불꽃 검을 동에서 서로 물결치듯 호수를 가르며 여명의 종식을 고하는 시각이다.

(저녁 해지는 모습을 참 오색찬란하게도 표현해 놓았다.)

68) That was the best part of life--going home to Missie May. Their whitewashed house, the mock battle on Saturday, the dinner and ice cream parlor afterwards, church on Sunday nights when Missie outdressed any woman in town--all, everything, was right.

미시메이가 기다리는 집으로 가는 길은 인생에서 가장 즐거운 (순간)이다. 그집은, 하얗게 칠한 그집은, 토요일마다 격렬한 사랑의 유희가 벌어지는(the mock battle) 곳, 일요일 저녁 교회에 갈때나 차려입는 마을에서 가장 예쁘게 입고 아이스크림 가게에 가는, 모든 것이 만족스런 그런 곳.

(앞으로 벌어질 일을 감히 예상도 못할 만큼 고양된 분위기를 늘어놓았다.)
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69) One night around eleven the acid ran out at the G. and G. The foreman knocked off the crew and let the steam die down.

(두둥! 공장에 재료가 떨어졌다! 일찍 퇴근이라니!)

70) As Joe rounded the lake on his way home, a lean moon rode the lake in a silver boat. If anybody had asked Joe about the moon on the lake, he would have said he hadn't paid it any attention.

한밤에 집으로 달려간다. 호숫가에 비친 은빛 가르마 같은 달 따위야 알바 아님.

71) But he saw it with his feelings. It made him yearn painfully for Missie. Creation obsessed him. He thought about children. They had been married more than a year now. They had money put away. They ought to be making little feet for shoes. A little boy child would be about right.

벌써 결혼한지 일년도 넘었다. 그간 저축도 좀 해뒀다. 얼른 집에가서 아이를 만들자(feet for shoes;(속어)임신시키다). 작은 사내아이면 좋겠다.

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72) He saw a dim light in the bedroom and decided to come in through the kitchen door. He could wash the fertilizer dust off himself before presenting himself to Missie May. It would be nice for her not to know that he was there until he slipped into his place in bed and hugged her back. She always liked that.

침실에 희미한 불빛이 새어 나온다. 침대로 들어가기 전에 비료공장 먼지는 털고 들어가야지. 뒤에서 안아주면 그녀는 좋아했지.
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73) He eased the kitchen door open slowly and silently, but when he went to set his dinner bucket on the table he bumped it into a pile of dishes, and something crashed to the floor. He heard his wife gasp in fright and hurried to reassure her.

부억을 지나다 도시락 통(dinner bucket)에 부디쳐 소리가 났다. 그녀가 놀랐는지 침실에서 소스라치게 놀라는 소리.

"Iss me, honey. Don't git skeered."

74) There was a quick, large movement in the bedroom. A rustle, a thud, and a stealthy silence. The light went out.

침실에서 뭔가 커다란 것이 움직이더니 불이 확 꺼졌다(went out).

75) What? Robbers? Murderers? Some varmint attacking his helpless wife, perhaps. He struck a match, threw himself on guard and stepped over the doorsill into the bedroom.

뭐야. 도둑이라도 든걸까? 가녀린 아내를 구해야지! 침실 문지방(doorsill)을 넘자 성냥불을 켰다.

76) The great belt on the wheel of Time slipped and eternity stood still.

시간의 수레바퀴에서 피대(줄)이 벗어난 듯이 세상 모든 것이 멈춘듯하다.

77) By the match light he could see the man's legs fighting with his breeches in his frantic desire to get them on. He had both chance and time to kill the intruder in his helpless condition--half in and half out of his pants--but he was too weak to take action.

성냥불 아래에 비친 겁에질린 어떤 남자를 발견했다. 한발은 아직 채 바짓가랭이에 끼우지 못한채 버둥거리는(in helpless condition) 사내를 해치울 수도 있었다.

78) The shapeless enemies of humanity that live in the hours of Time had waylaid Joe. He was assaulted in his weakness. Like Samson awakening after his haircut. So he just opened his mouth and laughed.

79) The match went out and he struck another and lit the lamp. A howling wind raced across his heart, but underneath its fury he heard his wife sobbing and Slemmons pleading for his life.

80) Offering to buy it with all that he had.

"Please, suh, don't kill me. Sixty-two dollars at de sto'. Gold money."

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81) Joe just stood. Slemmons looked at the window, but it was screened. Joe stood out like a rough-backed mountain between him and the door. Barring him from escape, from sunrise, from life.

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82) He considered a surprise attack upon the big clown that stood there laughing like a chessy cat.

83) But before his fist could travel an inch, Joe's own rushed out to crush him like a battering ram. Then Joe stood over him.

"Git into yo' damn rags, Slemmons, and dat quick."

"슬레먼, 빌어먹을 넝마들 들고 당장 꺼져"

83) Slemmons scrambled to his feet and into his vest and coat. As he grabbed his hat, Joe's fury overrode his intentions and he grabbed at Slemmons with his left hand and struck at him with his right. The right landed. The left grazed the front of his vest.

84) Slemmons was knocked a somersault into the kitchen and fled through the open door.

85) Joe found himself alone with Missie May, with the golden watch charm clutched in his left fist. A short bit of broken chain dangled between his fingers.

마침내 조와 울고있는 그의 아내만 남았다. 그(조)의 왼손에 출이 금장 시계가 줄이 끈어진 채 메달려 있었다.

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86) Missie May was sobbing. Wails of weeping without words. Joe stood, and after a while he found out that he had something in his hand. And then he stood and felt without thinking and without seeing with his natural eyes.

87) Missie May kept on crying and Joe kept on feeling so much, and not knowing what to do with all his feelings, he put Slemmons's watch charm in his pants pocket and took a good laugh and went to bed.

미시메이는 계속 흐느꼈고 조는 교차하는 만감을 어찌해야할지 몰랐다. 슬래머의 시계를 주머니에 찔러 넣고는 헛웃음을 지으며 침대로 갔다.

"Missie May, whut you cryin' for?"

"Cause Ah love you so hard and Ah know you don't love me no mo'."

88) Joe sank his face into the pillow for a spell, then he said huskily,

"You don't know de feelings of dat yet, Missie May."

"Oh Joe, honey, he said he wuz gointer give me dat gold money and he jes' kept on after me--"

"그놈이 금화를 주겠다며 쫒아 다녔어요."

89) Joe was very still and silent for a long time. Then he said,

"Well, don't cry no mo', Missie May. Ah got yo' gold piece for you."

"더이상 울지말아요, 미시메이. 내가 당신 금쪼가리를 가지고 있으니까"

90) The hours went past on their rusty ankles. Joe still and quiet on one bed rail and Missie May wrung dry of sobs on the other. Finally the sun's tide crept upon the shore of night and drowned all its hours. Missie May with her face stiff and streaked towards the window saw the dawn come into her yard. It was day. Nothing more.

91) Joe wouldn't be coming home as usual. No need to fling open the front door and sweep off the porch, making it nice for Joe. Never no more breakfast to cook; no more washing and starching of Joe's jumper-jackets and pants. No more nothing. So why get up?

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92) With this strange man in her bed, she felt embarrassed to get up and dress. She decided to wait till he had dressed and gone. Then she would get up, dress quickly and be gone forever beyond reach of Joe's looks and laughs. But he never moved. Red light turned to yellow, then white.

그녀는 침대에 누워있는 남편이 낮설게 느껴졌고 그가 옷을 입고 떠날때 까지 기다리기로 했다. 그리고 서둘러 조의 모습과 웃음이 닫지 않는 곳으로 멀리 떠나리라 마음먹었다. 하지만 그는 떠나지 않았다. 빨간 빛이 노랗게 변하더니 이윽고 하얗게 되었다. (악몽에서 일말의 희망으로)

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다음: 5

[감상] 'The Gilded Six-bits' 'fix', 단편소설에서 한 단어의 위력

The Gilded Six-Bits (3)

The Gilded Six-Bits (3)

51) Joe reached over gently and toyed with Missie May's ear.

"You jes' say dat cause you love me, but Ah know Ah can't hold no light to Otis D. Slemmons. Ah ain't never been nowhere and Ah ain't got nothin' but you."

52) Missie May got on his lap and kissed him and he kissed back in kind. Then he went on.

"All de womens is crazy 'bout 'im everywhere he go."

"How you know dat, Joe?"

"He tole us so hisself."

53) "Dat don't make it so. His mouf is cut crossways, ain't it? Well, he kin lie jes' lak anybody else."

54) "Good Lawd, Missie! You womens sho is hard to sense into things.  He's got a five-dollar gold piece for a stickpin and he got a ten-dollar gold piece on his watch chain and his mouf is jes' crammed full of gold teeths. Sho wisht it wuz mine. And whut make it so cool, he got money 'cumulated. And womens give it all to 'im."

55) "Ah don't see whut de womens see on 'im. Ah wouldn't give 'im a wink if de sheriff wuz after 'im."

56) "Well, he tole us how de white womens in Chicago give 'im all dat gold money. So he don't 'low nobody to touch it at all. Not even put day finger on it. Dey told 'im not to. You kin make 'miration at it, but don't tetch it."

57) "Whyn't he stay up dere where dey so crazy 'bout 'im?"

58) "Ah reckon dey done made 'im vast-rich and he wants to travel some. He says dey wouldn't leave 'im hit a lick of work. He got mo' lady people crazy 'bout him than he kin shake a stick at."

58) "Joe, Ah hates to see you so dumb. Dat stray nigger jes' tell y'all anything and y'all b'lieve it."

59) "Go 'head on now, honey, and put on yo' clothes. He talkin' 'bout his pritty womens--Ah want 'im to see mine."

60) Missie May went off to dress and Joe spent the time trying to make his stomach punch out like Slemmons's middle. He tried the rolling swagger of the stranger, but found that his tall bone-and muscle stride fitted ill with it. He just had time to drop back into his seat before Missie May came in dressed to go.

61) On the way home that night Joe was exultant.

"Didn't Ah say ole Otis was swell? Can't he talk Chicago talk? Wuzn't dat funny whut he said when great big fat ole Ida Armstrong come in? He asted me, 'Who is dat broad wid de forte shake?' Dat's a new word. Us always thought forty was a set of figgers but he showed us where it means a whole heap of things. Sometimes he don't say forty, he jes' say thirty-eight and two and dat mean de same thing. Know whut he told me when Ah wuz payin' for our ice cream? He say, 'Ah have to hand it to you, Joe. Dat wife of yours is jes' thirty-eight and two. Yessuh, she's forte!' Ain't he killin'?"

62) "He'll do in case of a rush. But he sho is got uh heap uh gold on 'im. Dat's de first time Ah ever seed gold money. It lookted good on him sho nuff, but it'd look a whole heap better on you."

63) "Who, me? Missie May, youse crazy! Where would a po' man lak me git gold money from?"

64) Missie May was silent for a minute, then she said,

"Us might find some goin' long de road some time. Us could."

"Who would be losin' gold money round heah? We ain't even seen none dese white folks wearin' no gold money on dey watch chain. You must be figgerin' Mister Packard or Mister Cadillac goin' pass through heah."

"You don't know whut been lost 'round heah. Maybe somebody way back in memorial times lost they gold money and went on off and it ain't never been found. And then if we wuz to find it, you could wear some 'thout havin' no gang of womens lak dat Slemmons say he got."

65) Joe laughed and hugged her.

"Don't be so wishful 'bout me. Ah'm satisfied de way Ah is. So long as Ah be yo' husband. Ah don't keer 'bout nothin' else. Ah'd ruther all de other womens in de world to be dead than for you to have de toothache. Less we go to bed and git our night rest."

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다음:4

[감상] 'The Gilded Six-bits' 'fix', 단편소설에서 한 단어의 위력

The Gilded Six-Bits (2)

The Gilded Six-Bits (2)

17) "Nobody ain't gointer be chunkin' money at me and Ah not do 'em nothin',"

"Nobody ain't going to be chunking money at me and I not do them nothing"

"누구도 나한테 돈을 던지면 않되지. 누구도 그렇게 하지 못하게 할테야"

* "남편 말고 누구에게도 허락치 않을테다. 누가 넘보지 못하게 할테다." 앞으로 일어날 배신행위에 대하여 필요이상의 강한 부정을 함으로써 부정이 일어날 것을 암시

she shouted in mock anger.

* mock anger; 가장된 화, 화난척

18) He ran around the house with Missie May at his heels. She overtook him at the kitchen door. He ran inside but could not close it after him before she crowded in and locked with him in a rough-and tumble.

19) For several minutes the two were a furious mass of male and female energy.

몇분간 두 힘찬 남녀의 맹렬한 뒤엃힘. (젊은 부부의 강렬한 유희)

20) Shouting, laughing, twisting, turning, tussling, tickling each other in the ribs; Missie May clutching onto Joe and Joe trying, but not too hard, to get away.

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21) "Missie May, take yo' hand out mah pocket!"

"Missie May, take your hand out my pocket!"

조: "미시 메이, 내 주머니에서 손을 빼라구"

Joe shouted out between laughs.
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22) "Ah ain't, Joe, not lessen you gwine gimme whateve' it is good you got in yo' pocket. Turn it go, Joe, do Ah'll tear yo' clothes."

"I ain't, Joe, not lessen you goint to give me whatever it is good you got in your pocket. Turn it go, Joe, do I'll tear your clothe."

메이: 싫다구, 조. 당신 주머니에 가져온 좋은거 나한테 주기기전에 풀어주지 않을테야. 돌아봐, 좌. (안그럼) 옷 찢어버릴지도 몰라"

23) "Go on tear 'em. You de one dat pushes de needles round heah. Move yo' hand, Missie May."

"Go on tear them. You do one that pushes the needles round here. Move your hand, Missie May."

조: "찢어봐바. 여기서 바느질 할 사람은 당신이지. 손좀 치우라고, 미시 메이"

* pushes the needles; 바늘을 밀다? (손바느질)

24) "Lemme git dat paper sak out yo' pocket. Ah bet it's candy kisses."

"Let me get that paper sack out your pocket. I bet it's candy kisses."

메이: "당시 주머니에 종이상자 뭐야, 그거 사탕이지"

* kisses; 키세스(사탕)

25) "Tain't. Move yo' hand. Woman ain't got no business in a man's clothes nohow. Go way."

"That ain't. Move your hand. Woman ain't got no business in a man's clothes nohow. Go way."

조: "이봐요. 여자가 남자 주머니에서 무슨 볼일이 있다고 그러셔"

26) Missie May gouged way down and gave an upward jerk and triumphed.

* gouge: 가우즈. 후벼파다. 도려내다. (<> de-gauging: 디가우징)

27) "Unhhunh! Ah got it! It 'tis so candy kisses. Ah knowed you had somethin' for me in yo' clothes. Now Ah got to see whut's in every pocket you got."

"... I got it! It is so candy kisses. I knew you had something for me in your clothes. Now I got to see what's in every pocket you got."

28) Joe smiled indulgently and let his wife go through all of his pockets and take out the things that he had hidden for her to find. She bore off the chewing gum, the cake of sweet soap, the pocket handkerchief as if she had wrested them from him, as if they had not been bought for the sake of this friendly battle.

* indulgently: 관대하게
* friendly battle: joyful mischief 같은 반어법이 종종 등장한다.

29) "Whew! dat play-fight done got me all warmed up!" Joe exclaimed.

"Hew! That play-fight done got me all warmed up!"

조: "한참 법석을 떨었더니 덥네"

30) "Got me some water in de kittle?"

"Got me some water in the kettle?"

조: "물좀 덥혀놨지?"

31) "Yo' water is on de fire and yo' clean things is cross de bed. Hurry up and wash yo'self and git changed so we kin eat. Ah'm hongry."

"Your water is on the fire and your clean things is cross the bed. Hurry up and wash yourself and get changed so we can eat. I'm hungry"

메이: "물끓여 놨어요. 옷도 발아놨으니까 얼른 씻고 갈아입고 와요. 배고파"

32) As Missie said this, she bore the steaming kettle into the bedroom.

33) "You ain't hongry, sugar,"

Joe contradicted her.

34) "Youse jes' a little empty. Ah'm de one whut's hongry. Ah could eat up camp meetin', back off 'ssociation, and drink Jurdan dry. Have it on de table when Ah git out de tub."

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35) "Don't you mess wid mah business, man. You git in yo' clothes. Ah'm a real wife, not no dress and breath. Ah might not look lak one, but if you burn me, you won't git a thing but wife ashes."

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36) Joe splashed in the bedroom and Missie May fanned around in the kitchen. A fresh red-and-white checked cloth on the table. Big pitcher of buttermilk beaded with pale drops of butter from the churn. Hot fried mullet, crackling bread, ham hock atop a mound of string beans and new potatoes, and perched on the windowsill a pone of spicy potato pudding.

37) Very little talk during the meal but that little consisted of banter that pretended to deny affection but in reality flaunted it. Like when Missie May reached for a second helping of the tater pone. Joe snatched it out of her reach.

38) After Missie May had made two or three unsuccessful grabs at the pan, she begged,

"Aw, Joe, gimme some mo' dat tater pone."

"Nope, sweetenin' is for us menfolks. Y'all pritty lil frail eels don't need nothin' lak dis. You too sweet already."

"Please, Joe."

"Naw, naw. Ah don't want you to git no sweeter than whut you is already. We goin' down de road a lil piece t'night so you go put on yo' Sunday-go-to-meetin' things."

39) Missie May looked at her husband to see if he was playing some prank.

"Sho nuff, Joe?"

"Yeah. We goin' to de ice cream parlor."

40) "Where de ice cream parlor at, Joe?"

41) "A new man done come heah from Chicago and he done got a place and took and opened it up for a ice cream parlor, and bein', as it's real swell, Ah wants you to be one de first ladies to walk in dere and have some set down."

42) "Do Jesus, Ah ain't knowed nothin' bout it. Who de man done it?"

43) "Mister Otis D. Slemmons, of spots and places--Memphis, Chicago, Jacksonville, Philadelphia and so on."

44) "Dat heavyset man wid his mouth full of gold teeths?"

45) "Yeah. Where did you see 'im at?"

46) "Ah went down to de sto' tuh git a box of lye and Ah seen 'im standin' on de corner talkin' to some of de mens, and Ah come on back and went to scrubbin' de floor, and he passed and tipped his hat whilst Ah was scourin' de steps. Ah thought Ah never seen him befo'."

47) Joe smiled pleasantly.

"Yeah, he's up-to-date. He got de finest clothes Ah ever seen on a colored man's back."

48) "Aw, he don't look no better in his clothes than you do in yourn. He got a puzzlegut on 'im and he so chuckleheaded he got a pone behind his neck."

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49) Joe looked down at his own abdomen and said wistfully:

"Wisht Ah had a build on me lak he got. He ain't puzzlegutted, honey. He jes' got a corperation. Dat make 'm look lak a rich white man. All rich mens is got some belly on 'em."

50) "Ah seen de pitchers of Henry Ford and he's a spare-built man and Rockefeller look lak he ain't got but one gut. But Ford and Rockefeller and dis Slemmons and all de rest kin be as many-gutted as dey please, Ah's satisfied wid you jes' lak you is, baby. God took pattern after a pine tree and built you noble. Youse a pritty man, and if Ah knowed any way to make you mo' pritty still Ah'd take and do it."

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다음:3

[감상] 'The Gilded Six-bits' 'fix', 단편소설에서 한 단어의 위력

[The Gilded Six-bits] 'fix', 단편소설에서 한 단어의 위력

[The Gilded Six-bits] 'fix', 단편소설에서 한 단어의 위력

단편소설을 통해 작가의 의도를 드러내는 경우가 있다. 계몽소셜류가 그 중 하나일 것이다. 작가가 어떤 의도를 가진 것과는 무관하게(작가의 직접 해설을 듣지 못했으므로) 독자의 관심사, 읽는 시점의 사회적 분위기 등의 영향을 받아 달리 해석되는 경우도 있으리라. 그런 까닭에 작품에서 작가의 의도를 찾아보려고 과한 노력을 하다 소설 읽는 재미를 놓치는것은 아닐까?

이 소설을 재미로 읽어보면 어떨까 싶다. 젊은 부부의 격렬한 사랑, 배신 그리고 희망적 결말이라는 어쩌면 통속적 단막극 쯤으로 봐도 재미있을 것이다. (작가는 filmmaker 이기도 하다.) 눈에 선할 정도로 치밀한 장면 묘사가 작품 전반에 걸쳐있다. 이를테면, 남편을 맞기위해 몸단장하는 모습은 육감적이다. 비록 신문지일 망정 잘 접어 부엌선반에 깔아놓은 모습은 알뜰한 아내의 모습이다. 풍요하진 않더라도 곤궁해 보이진 않는다.

하지만 둘의 대화 속에서 아이스크림 가게 주인(도시에서 굴러먹다 온 사기꾼이다)에 대한 남편의 부러운 시선, 아내의 은근한 끌림도 드러난다. 곤궁하진 않더라도 사랑과 더블어 다소의 풍요함도 마다할 필요는 없으니까 말이다. 여기에 외부세상에 대한 남편의 동경이 더해진다. 그러다 사단이 벌어진다.

예정에 없이 일찍 퇴근한 남편은 침대맡에 발이 네개인 것을 목격한다. '처용'과는 다르게 남편은 사기꾼을 한방에 때려 눕힌다. 그리고 멱살잡이 때 사기꾼이 뻐기던 금장 시계줄과 장식으로 달린 금동전이 가짜인 것을 알고는 실소를 금할길 없다. 부부의 갈등과 해결의 과정이 이어진다. 남편은 떠나지 않고 가끔씩 집에 들러 자고 간다. 그때 마다 금동전을 베갯닢에 놓고 가곤 한다. 아내는 비참하다. 그러다 어느날에는 가짜 금장 시계줄을 놓고 갔다. 아내는 그것을 발견하고 가짜였음을 안다.

금동전(실은 금박입힌 가짜) 가지고 뻐기던 사기꾼의 실체가 드러나고 남편의 어머니가 등장하여 화해의 실마리를 제공한다. 첫손자가 아들과 닮았다고 말한다. 이에 남편은 누그러지기로 한다.

이 소설의 결말중 여주인공의 대사에 나오는 한 단어 'fix' 가 주는 의미가 기묘하다. '손보다'를 넘어 '혼내주다'로 이해하기에는 무리다. 저간의 사정이 중한데 유책 배우자가 단숨에 상황을 역전 시켰단 말인가? 남편이 동전을 던진 것을 부부간 성의 댓가를 했다고 화를 낸 것 같지않다. 이미 남편은 누그러진 상태이고 아내도 그것을 바랬으니까.

소설의 첫장면에서 동전을 던져 소리를 내는 것의 의미는 행복한 장난(joyful mischief)의 시작을 알리는 종소리다. 끝장면의 동전 소리는 부부관계의 복원의 종소리다. 처음보다 더 강하게 울린다. 15번이다! 그렇다면 'fix'는 '복원'이라고 해야하지 않을까?

이 소설에서 단어 'fix' 는 세번 나온다. 불행한 사고가 벌어진 다음날 아침밥을 차려달라는 의미로 쓰였다. 두번째 fix는 시어머니가 손자를 받아들고 며느리 산후조리의 의미로 쓰인 'fix' 다. 끝으로, (어쩌면) 누그러진 남편을 맞으며 막 출산한 몸이지만, 곳 회복해서 전처럼 맞아 주리라는 의미의 fix 말이다. 사전적 의미로도 'fix'는 '고치다', '복원하다', '음식을 차리다'의 뜻을 가지고 있다.

단편소설의 결말에 사용된 한 단어 'fix'의 해석에 따라 들려주는 울림의 위력은 아주 크다. 이 소설에서 벌어진 사건은 현실 세계로 보면 어쩌면 돌이킬 수 없는 파탄의 상황이지만 단편소설 아닌가. 그렇게 풀어지기로 하자. 그게더 독자로서 기분좋은 일이다. 중간중간 등장하는 작가의 서사적 배경묘사는 영문학 공부하는 입장에서 덤이다.

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The Gilded Six-Bits (1)

The Gilded Six-Bits (1)
by Zora Neale Hurston

1) It was a Negro yard around a Negro house in a Negro settlement that looked to the payroll of the G. and G. Fertilizer works for its support.

G & G 비료회사에서 봉급을 받으며 살아가는 흑인 정착촌, 흑인동네, 흑인 마당 (Negro 의 alliteration. 비료회사의 흑인 직원 마을)
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2) But there was something happy about the place. The front yard was parted in the middle by a sidewalk from gate to doorstep, a sidewalk edged on either side by quart bottles driven neck down into the ground on a slant.

(흑인, 검은색에서 연상되는 우울함이 아니라)하지만 뭔가 행복한 장소다. 앞마당 중간을 가로질러 대문에서 현관에 이르는 보도가 나있다. 보도 가(edge)로 병을 뒤집어 비스듬(slant)히 땅에 박아놓았다.

3) A mess of homey flowers planted without a plan but blooming cheerily from their helter-skelter places. The fence and house were whitewashed. The porch and steps scrubbed white.

아무렇게나 심어놓은 듯한 꽃밭이지만 가정용 화초들이 그들의 혼잡한 집에 싱그럽게 피었다. 담장과 집, 현관과 계단은 희게 회칠을 했다. (일년이 채 않된 신접 살림집이라 정돈이 덜된 모습. 가정적인 안주인의 각오가 엿보임)
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4) The front door stood open to the sunshine so that the floor of the front room could finish drying after its weekly scouring. It was Saturday.

* 열린 현관문으로 햇살이 비쳐 주간 청소를 마친 (물기를) 말리는 중. 토요일이다. (남편 맞을 준비중)

5) Everything clean from the front gate to the privy house. Yard raked so that the strokes of the rake would make a pattern. Fresh newspaper cut in fancy edge on the kitchen shelves.

현관문에서 별채(외부 변소)에 이르는 길은 잘 정돈되어있다. 마당은 갈퀴질을 한 자욱이 선명하다. 새 신문을 예쁘게 접어 깔아놓은 부엌 선반(부유하진 않지만 곤궁하지 않은 살림살이)
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6) Missie May was bathing herself in the galvanized washtub in the bedroom. Her dark-brown skin glistened under the soapsuds that skittered down from her washrag. Her stiff young breasts thrust forward aggressively, like broad-based cones with the tips lacquered in black.

* 미시메이는 침실의 함석 욕조에서 목용중. 안주인의 몸매를 육감적으로 표현.
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7) She heard men's voices in the distance and glanced at the dollar clock on the dresser.

멀리 남자 목소리가 들린다. 옷을 입으며 싸구려 (탁상)시계를 본다.

8) "Humph! Ah'm way behind time t'day! Joe gointer be heah 'fore Ah git mah clothes on if Ah don't make haste."

"I'm way behind time today! Joe going to be here before I get my clothes on if I don't make haste"

"오늘은 좀 늦었네! 서두르지 않으면 옷을 다 입기전에 조(남편)가 도착하겠네" (혼잣말)

9) She grabbed the clean mealsack at hand and dried herself hurriedly and began to dress. But before she could tie her slippers, there came the ring of singing metal on wood. Nine times.

깨끗한 푸대자루 (수건)을 집어들고 서둘러 몸을 말리고 옷을 입는다. 슬리퍼를 채 다 꿰기전에 나무에 금속 떨어지는 소리가 났다. 아홉번.
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10) Missie May grinned with delight. She had not seen the big tall man come stealing in the gate and creep up the walk grinning happily at the joyful mischief he was about to commit.

* joyful mischief; 행복한 장난

11) But she knew that it was her husband throwing silver dollars in the door for her to pick up and pile beside her plate at dinner.

은 달러(동전)를 문에 던진다. 동전들은 저녁식사때 그녀 접시에 쌓아둘 것이다.

12) It was this way every Saturday afternoon. The nine dollars hurled into the open door, he scurried to a hiding place behind the Cape jasmine bush and waited.

남편은 동전을 던져 놓고 덤불 뒤로 숨는다. 즐거운 장난(joyful mischief)이다.
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13) Missie May promptly appeared at the door in mock alarm.

* mock alarm; 놀란 척

14) "Who dat chunkin' money in mah do'way?"

"Who that chunking money in my door way?"

she demanded.

15) No answer from the yard. She leaped off the porch and began to search the shrubbery. She peeped under the porch and hung over the gate to look up and down the road.

* 여자는 현관을 내려다보기도 하고 길 살핀다.

16) While she did this, the man behind the jasmine darted to the chinaberry tree. She spied him and gave chase.

재스민 덤불 뒤에 숨었던 남자가 차이나 베리 나무 뒤로 재빨리 움직인다. 여자는 그를 발견하고 쫒는다. (연인들 사이의 즐거운-유치한-장난의 시작)
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* 마치 영화의 한장면 무대 설명을 자세히 하고 있다.

비료 회사에 딸린 흑인 직원용 마을, 온통 검지만 희게 횟칠을 한 담장과 집. 정리가 덜된 신접 살림, 하지만 싱그런 꽃이 만발한 마당에 갈퀴질한 자욱이 선명하다.

신문지를 가지런히 접어 깔아놓은 부억선반, 수건을 대신한 푸댓자루로 몸을 닥는다. 곤궁하지 않고 행복한 모습이다.

젊은 안주인은 남편을 맞기전에 목욕을 마치는 중이다. 그녀의 육감적 몸매를 묘사함으로써 앞으로 일어날 사건의 밑자락을 깔아 놓고 있다. 행복하지만 부유하진 않다. 안주인은 매력적인 몸매를 지녔다.

주말, 급료를 받아쥔 남편의 도착. 집에 도착 했다는 기별 삼아 급료로 받은 동전을 문간에 던지는데 굳이 그럴 필요가 있을까? 즐거운 장난으로 두 사람의 행복함을 한껏 고양 시킨다.

정돈되지 않은 신접살림, 요령있는 살림 솜씨를 보여준다. 그래도 돈이 있으면 더욱 좋겠지. 육감적인 여자의 몸매를 묘사하며 앞으로 전개될 사건의 밑자락을 깔고 있다. 동전은 배신과 행복의 상징이 될 것이다. 검은 색과 흰색의 대비 또한 극의 양면을 시각적으로 보여주는 장치다.
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[감상] 'The Gilded Six-bits' 'fix', 단편소설에서 한 단어의 위력