约翰.契弗在其短篇小说中,描写中产阶级普通人的普通生活,尤其是他们生活中存在于夫妻之间、兄弟之间道德与情感的诸多冲突,从而向人们展示了当代美国家庭中人们的内心世界,为我们更进一步地认识美国社会具有一定的指导意义。 In his short stories, John Cheever portrays the ordinary life of middle-class ordinary people, especially the many conflicts in their lives that exist between husband and wife and the moral and emotional bonds between brothers, thus showing people in contemporary American families The inner world has a certain guiding significance for us to further understand American society.