舍伍德·安德森是美国文学史上一位享有盛誉、影响深远的现代作家,他在短篇小说集《小城畸人》中向我们展示了一群社会畸人的悲剧命运。本文以其中的一篇小说《母亲》为范本,阐述了造成畸人悲剧的两大主要因素:社会环境及人物自身的性格缺陷。 Sherwood Anderson is a famous and far-reaching modern writer in the history of American literature. He showed us the tragic fate of a group of social abnormal people in the short story collection “The Mighty Torturer.” Based on one of the novels, “The Mother,” this article illustrates two major factors that have led to the tragedy of the abnormal people: the social environment and the personality flaws of the characters themselves.