舍伍德·安德森是美国20世纪最重要的作家之一。他的代表作《小镇畸人》刻画了一群生动的畸形人物,他们在孤独和绝望之中苦苦挣扎,却一无所获,展现给外部世界的只有是让人难以理解的畸形行为和畸形心理。本文从社会历史的角度分析《小镇畸人》中人物畸形的深层原因,以期展现安德森对于处于社会转型期的劳苦大众的深切人文关怀。 Sherwood Anderson is one of the most important writers of the 20th century in the United States. His masterpiece, The Tale of the Townsman, depicts a group of vivid deformities who struggled alone and desperately, but found nothing to the outside world. These were unacceptable deformities and abnormal psychology. This article analyzes the deep reason of the deformity of the characters in “The Tale of the Town” from the angle of society and history in order to show Anderson’s deep humane care for the working people in the period of social transformation.