《子夜》是茅盾的代表作,是中国二十世纪现代文学史上的经典之作,同时更是一部描写二十世纪三十年代中国上海社会经济生活,展现商人风貌的长篇小说。本文试图在租界语境的关照下,从商人的民族意识与个体欲望的自我冲突;“死的跳舞——重压下的宣泄”两个方面对《子夜》中的商人形象的特点给予阐释。 Midnight is a masterpiece of Mao Dun and a classic in the history of modern Chinese literature in the twentieth century. It is also a novels that portrays the social and economic life of Shanghai in China in the 1930s and shows the style of merchants. This article attempts to give consideration to the conception of the concession context from the businessman’s national consciousness and individual desire self-conflict; “the dancing of death - the catharsis under the pressure ” Explain.