纵观乔伊斯·卡罗尔·欧茨的小说,其主人公都逼近死亡,却没有一个主人公抵达浮士德式的终点,他们像孤独的游魂一般,一个个徘徊于死与生、灵与肉之间。现代社会,机器成了“操作理性”的事物,压抑着人的本能,桎梏着人们的感受力,人成了机器的奴隶,灵魂开始消逝、溃烂。本文主要从灵与肉的关系来看欧茨是如何探寻“浮士德难题”的。 Throughout Joyce Carol Oates’s novels, the protagonists are approaching death, but no one hero arrived at the end of the Faustian, they are like wandering souls in general, wandering one by one death and health, spirit Between the meat. Modern society, the machine has become “operating rationality ” things, depressing the instinct of people, with people’s feelings, people become slaves of the machine, the soul began to fade away, fester. This article mainly looks at the relationship between spirit and flesh, how Oates explored the “Faust puzzle.”