厄普代克是当代美国最重要和最杰出的作家之一。“兔子五部曲”是他的成功代表作,覆盖了20世纪后半个世纪整整50年的美国社会生活史,将一个小人物“兔子”贯入动荡变迁的社会大背景中,并以他的生活为半径,生动地描绘出当代美国社会的现实。20世纪60年代美国女权主义运动的第二次高潮,明显地影响了厄普代克对书中女性人物的态度,小说的写作重心从男权主义倾向转移到女权主义倾向。 Updike is one of the most important and prominent writers in contemporary America. “Rabbit’s Five Novels ” is his masterpiece of success, covering the history of social life in the United States after 50 years in the latter half of the 20th century. It incorporates a small figure “Rabbit ” in the social background of turbulent changes and Taking his life as a radius, vividly depicts the reality of contemporary American society. The second climax of the American feminist movement in the 1960s obviously influenced Updike’s attitude toward the female characters in the book. The focus of his writing shifted from the tendency of patriarchal to feminist.