拥有传奇一生的杰克伦敦在20世纪初成为美国稿费最高的作家,其代表作《野性的呼唤》作为一部动物寓言,赢得了美国大众读者的喜爱。针对小说中多次提到的南方与严寒的北极地带的对比以及南方狗与北方狗的比较,本文试着通过象征手法分析小说所隐射的美国南方种植园与北方工业社会的文化差异。 The legendary life of Jack London became the highest royalist writer in the United States at the beginning of the 20th century. His masterpiece The Call of the Wild, an animal parable, won the favor of American readers. Aiming at the comparison between southern and frigid Arctic regions repeatedly mentioned in the novel and the comparison between southern dogs and northern dogs, this paper attempts to analyze the cultural differences between the southern American plantations and the northern industrial society hidden in the novels through symbolic techniques.