奥尼尔的戏剧以悲剧闻名世界。他所讲述的大都是普通美国家庭的悲剧故事,这些“小人物“的苦难使读者对生活、对社会产生反思,并揭示现代人的生存困境。究竟是在残酷的现实中选择死亡,还是在虚假的梦想中麻木地生存?这是奥尼尔所创作的大多数戏剧人物面临的一个问题。本文从死亡和生存两个方面来分析奥尼尔戏剧人物的命运,从而进一步分析奥尼尔悲剧的生死观。 O’Neill’s plays are famous for their tragedies. What he tells is mostly the tragedy story of ordinary American families. The suffering of these “little people” makes readers reflect on life and society, and reveals the plight of modern people. Whether choosing to die in brutal reality or numb in a false dream? This is a problem that most theater figures created by O’Neill face. This article analyzes the fate of O’Neill’s dramatists from the aspects of death and survival so as to further analyze O’Neill’s concept of life and death.