《汤姆叔叔的小屋》一书通过一系列精心设计的死亡事件逐渐展开对汤姆人生悲剧的整体叙事。斯托夫人在小说文本中,成功地通过死亡预设、死亡追叙、死亡干预、死亡补叙等一系列写作手法,完成了围绕汤姆这一主体人物的叙事。小说中的死亡已经不仅是斯托夫人用来对蓄奴制罪恶进行揭露和控诉的主体思想,更是其用来对小说主体叙事加以构建的主要策略和重要手段。 Uncle Tom’s Cabin gradually unfolded an overall narrative of Tom’s tragedy of life through a series of well-designed death events. In his novels, Stowe succeeded in completing the narration around Tom as the main character through a series of writing techniques, such as death presupposition, death chaser, death intervening and death remedy. The death in the novel has not only been the main idea that Stowe used to expose and prosecute the crime of slavery, but also the main tactics and important means used to construct the narrative of the novel.