My Everlasting Dream and Pursuit is a brief autobiography by Xiao Hong, well-known for its simple, unadorned language and long-lasting artistic charm. This paper studies Prof. LIU Shicong's and Prof. ZHANG Peiji's English translations of this essay from a discourse analysis approach in terms of theme - rheme division of the sentence, experiential metafunction and interpersonal metafunction. It aims to prove that discourse analysis sheds light even on the literary translation field and thus can help translators to spot problems that tend to go...