卡森·麦卡勒斯的中篇小说《伤心咖啡馆之歌》讲述了艾米利亚小姐一段失败的婚姻,但它寓意的是整个人类的生存状态。本文用结构主义和叙事学相结合的方法,分析了整个文本,揭示出作者的目的不是描述一个女人的三角恋爱,而是借这一爱情故事展示现代人深陷难以沟通、难以理解的悲哀境地,因此,这首悲伤之歌是唱给整个人类的。 Carson McCullers’ novella “Song of Sad Cafe” tells the story of a failed marriage of Miss Emilia, but it implies the entire state of human existence. This article analyzes the whole text by means of the combination of structuralism and narratology, revealing that the author’s purpose is not to describe a woman’s love affair, but to show this love story that modern people are in a sad situation that is difficult to communicate and hard to understand Therefore, this song of sorrow is sung to the entire human race.