美国首位诺贝尔文学奖得主辛克莱·刘易斯,以社会观察家的观察力,通过其代表性作品《大街》《阿罗史密斯》等小说,塑造了不同阶层、不同性别却具有共同的理想主义追求的主人公形象,在颁奖词中有着深刻的体现,契合了以文学改造社会的创作宗旨,对现代中国具有一定的现实意义。 Sinclair Lewis, the nation’s first Nobel Prize laureate, has drawn the common idealist pursuit of different strata and genders through his representative works “Street” and “Arrow Smith” with the observation power of social observers The image of the protagonist has a profound manifestation in the awarding speech and is in line with the creative purpose of transforming the society with literature. It has some realistic meanings to modern China.