亨利·詹姆斯的长篇小说《使节》被认为是美国知识分子或者说美国人在欧洲文化与美国自身文化两者中如何选择与建立的典型作品。而笔者将试着从个体的角度,通过分析作为小说主人公的使节斯特瑞塞的行动方向,并结合作者亨利詹姆斯的自身经历,进一步解读主人公及作者作为“使节”行动的原因、意义。 Henry James’s novel “Envoys” is considered to be a typical example of how American intellectuals or Americans chose and set up both European culture and American own culture. The author will try to further interpret the reason and meaning of the protagonist and the author as “envoys ” by analyzing the direction of Strasseron, the angel of the novel, as an angel of the novel, combined with the author’s own experience of Henry James .