在美国工业化进程中,人被异化为机器,固有的生活方式和价值观念被彻底摧毁,无法适应这种变化的人便成了畸形人。舍伍德·安德森在其作品《手》中展现了美国中西部小镇那些平凡的小人物们的生活以及他们对爱的渴望与缺失,因此《手》这部作品成为美国中西部小镇乃至整个人类的寓言。 In the process of industrialization in the United States, people are alienated into machines, their inherent ways of life and values ​​are completely destroyed, and those who can not adapt to such changes become freaks. Sherwood Anderson shows the lives of ordinary people in the Midwestern towns and the thirst for and love for them in his hand “The Hand,” so that the “Hand” piece became a town in the Midwest as well as the entire human race Allegory.