沈从文先生,湖南省凤凰县人,现代著名的作家。他写作的特点是纪实中有象征,简约、中带古朴,平实的生活叙述中又透出无限对家乡的赞美和人性纯朴的赞扬,给人启示。《萧萧》是沈从文短篇小说的代表作之一。主要讲述了在湘西这个社会背景下,女主人公萧萧从小失去父母,12岁时便不明不白嫁给了断奶不久,未满3岁的“小丈夫”。在情窦初开时,又被花狗诱奸抛弃,后因生了儿子才幸免于死,没有被沉潭也没再嫁。而她生下的儿子长到12岁时也娶了比他大的女子做媳妇。本文试图通过文本细读等分析方法,研究阐明该小说隐含在萧萧命运中的“自在”主题,以及作者对湘西世界中人性“自在”的思考和剖析。 Shen Congwen, Fenghuang County, Hunan Province, a modern well-known writer. His writing is characterized by a symbol of documentary, simple, with a simple, plain life narrative also revealed infinite praise for hometown and simple praise of humanity, give enlightenment. “Xiao Xiao” is one of Shen Congwen’s short stories. Mainly described in the western Hunan this social context, the heroine Xiao Xiao childhood lost her parents, 12 years old was unidentified married to weaning shortly before the age of 3 “little husband.” In the sentimental beginning, they were abandoned by flowers and dog seduction, after the birth of his son was spared death, not to be re-married Shen Tan. And when she was 12 years old, her son, who was born, married a woman bigger than him as a wife. This paper tries to clarify the theme of “Freedom ” which is implicit in the novel ’s fate, and the author ’ s thinking and analysis of the human “freedom ” in western Hunan through textual analysis and other analytical methods.