“社群(community)”是神学、哲学、社会学、社会政治学等学科的热议话题之一,文学作品也在关注它的“生存”状况。霍桑长篇小说《红字》是较早讨论“社群”的重要文本。它用事实和虚构相结合的手法构建了一个美国17世纪初期理想社会原型——“波士顿社群”:自由与平等、民主与自治、共享信念和价值观、友爱和责任感,阐明“社群”的构建、维护和治理及其之于个人和社会发展的重要性。分析文学中的“社群”形态,不仅可以丰富它在上述诸学科中的意义维度,而且具有重要的文学史学意义和美学价值。 “Community ” is one of the hot topics in theology such as theology, philosophy, sociology and sociology and politics. Literary works are also paying attention to its “living ” status. Hawthorne’s novel “The Scarlet Letter” is an important text to discuss “Community” earlier. It uses a combination of fact and fiction to construct an ideal social prototype of the United States in the early 17th century - the “Boston community”: freedom and equality, democracy and autonomy, sharing of beliefs and values, love and responsibility, Group “of the construction, maintenance and governance and its importance to personal and social development. Analyzing the ”community" morphology in literature can not only enrich its meaning dimension in these disciplines, but also have important historical significance and aesthetic value.