《警察和赞美诗》的故事情的简单,但妙趣横生,虽近于荒唐,而又合乎情理。它有力地揭露了美国社会是非不分、黑白颠倒的不合理现实和资产阶级法律的虚伪。这篇小说的情节环绕着主人公苏比的活动,进行单线发展。按照情节的发展,时间的先后顺序,小说可分为三大部分。第一部分,写苏比谋求入狱过冬。小说开头第一句就点明了主人公苏比的身分——一个 The story of “Police and Hymns” is simple, but full of fun, though absurd and reasonable. It has powerfully exposed the unreasonable reality of American society, the inconsistent reality of black and white, and the hypocrisy of bourgeois law. The story of this novel is surrounded by the activities of the protagonist, Soapy, to develop a single line. According to the development of the plot, the order of time, the novel can be divided into three parts. The first part, writing Soapy seeks winter in jail. The first sentence of the novel begins with the identity of the hero, Soapy - one