美国作家欧·亨利是批判现实主义的大师,他的短篇小说充满了对现实的高度概括,构思新颖、出人意料的“欧·亨利笔法”是作者的描写方式。而他运用现实主义表现手法,广泛反映19世纪末美国社会下层人们生活的不幸,无情地揭露金钱万能的社会罪恶,赞颂小人物所表现的人性美,使他在美国文学史上占有特殊的地位。 American writer 欧 · 亨利 is the master of critical realism, his short stories are full of highly summarized reality, novel ideas, unexpected “Ou. Henry writing” is the author’s description. However, he used realistic expression methods to widely reflect the misfortune of the people living in the lower classes of the United States in the late 19th century. They unmasked the social sin of omnipotent money and praised the human nature shown by the minor and made him occupy a special position in the history of American literature.