中外优秀小说通常是有主题的,然而由于作品表现出来的人、事、物具有复杂性和丰富性,加之作者的创作立场、创造意图、创作风格、价值取向的差异,作品的主题往往出现显性与隐形的双重性境况。这样,作品就会呈现出焦点透视与散点透视的情况。本文以宗教主题、苦难主题、荒诞主题和爱情主题入手,分析英美经典小说的显隐性主题的功效与寓意。 Chinese and foreign excellent novels usually have the theme. However, because of the complexity and richness of the people, things and things presented by the works, together with the author’s creative position, creative intention, creative style and value orientation, Sex and invisibility of the dual situation. In this way, the work will show the focus of perspective and scattered perspective of the situation. This article starts with the religious theme, the theme of misery, the theme of absurdity and the theme of love, and analyzes the effect and implication of the explicit theme of the classic novels of Britain and the United States.