“成长小说”是以青少年(主要是男性问题少年或叛逆者)为主要人物,表现一个人自幼年或少年至成年、自天真无知至成熟世故的历练过程。如果用这个概念来对应迈因德特·狄扬《小吉姆和他的大卷心菜》,显然这篇情节平淡、感情直白的小说与“痛苦而艰辛的成长”有一定的悖违。但如果转换一下视角、放宽一下“成长”的含义再来看狄扬的《小吉姆和他的大卷心菜》,就会看出其中的“成长”元素,还有其与“成长小说”的契合点。 “Growing Novels ” is a teenager (mainly male problem juvenile or rebel) as the main character, a person from childhood or adolescence to adulthood, from innocent to mature experience of the process. If this concept is used to correspond to Meindert Dijan, “Little Jim and his big cabbage,” it is clear that this plain, straightforward novel is somewhat contrary to “painful and arduous growth.” However, if we change the perspective and relax the meaning of “growth”, then we will see that Di Yang’s “Jim and his cabbage” will find out the “growth” element and the “growth” Novel "point of convergence.