小说是时间的艺术,也是空间的艺术。小说是现实生活的影子,而现实生活又是连续不断,复杂多变的,如何通过塑造人物折射现实生活似乎成了每一篇小说解读的重点。我们承认,人物是小说的中心,情节是小说的躯干,但切不可忽视小说中的环境,对于人物漫长的人生来说,情节是时间上的截取,环境则是空间上的截取,情节展现的是人物怎样做,而环境展现的则是人物在怎样的情境下这样做。可以这样说,环境是人物性格存活的理由和条件,它 Novels are the art of time and the art of space. Novels are the shadow of real life, but the real life is continuous and complicated. How to refrain real life by shaping people seems to be the focus of every novel. We admit that people are the center of the novel, the plot is the torso of the novel, but we must not ignore the novel’s environment. For the long life, the plot is the interception of time, the environment is the space of interception, What the characters do, and the environment shows the characters in what kind of situation to do so. It can be said that the environment is the reason and condition for the character’s character to survive