英国作家格雷厄姆·格林的绝大部分小说中都存在着一个“格林之原”。它在不同的作品中被具化为不同的地理位置,同时也被用来比喻形形色色失去信仰、挣扎在痛苦之中的人群的精神世界。在《文静的美国人》中,格林就通过三位主人公错综复杂的关系和冲突展示了“格林之原”上人们精神和心理上的种种斗争与变化,表明“格林之原”并非彻底黑暗和令人绝望,而是一个在毁灭之中依然存在着一线新生希望的世界。 Most of the novels by Graham Greene, a British writer, have a “primitive Greenery.” It has been translated into different geographical locations in different works and also used to describe the spiritual world of all kinds of people who have lost their faith and struggled in pain. In the “quiet American”, Green demonstrated the spiritual and psychological struggles and changes of people on the original Greenery through the intricate relationships and conflicts between the three protagonists, showing that “the original Greenery” is not Completely dark and desperate, but a world in which the hope of a new generation remains in the process of destruction.