后现代小说家托马斯·品钦的小说《拍卖第四十九批》讲述了女主人公奥狄帕执行一大批遗产的故事。这部小说完成于20世纪60年代的美国社会,当时的社会是一个充满了激荡与解放的社会。品钦切入美国社会的视角与方法独特,与传统的写实叙事不同,他用自己的一套隐喻模式来向读者展示20世纪60年代的美国社会。品钦展示科技进步的代价的同时,也暴露了这个新兴民主国家的内在的矛盾,文章将从这两个方面切入,分析作者试图想向读者传达的美国社会。 The postmodern novelist Thomas Pynchon’s novel “The forty-ninth auction” tells the story of heroine Odipa executing a large number of heritages. The novel was completed in American society in the 1960s when society was a society full of turmoil and liberation. Different from the traditional realistic narrative, Pynchon, with its unique metaphorical model, shows readers the American society of the 1960s. While Pinchin shows the price of technological progress, it also reveals the inherent contradictions of this emerging democracies. The article will look at these two aspects and analyze the American society that the author tries to convey to readers.