一般人印象中的马克·吐温,幽默、诙谐、乐观、诚善,对人民,尤其是对普普通通的人,感情挚厚,热爱、同情他们,“连他们的缺点都加以爱护”.可是,一般人看到的只是吐温乐观开朗的积极的一面,很少了解、注意到他极端、偏激的一面,他那神秘主义、厌世悲观、自相矛盾的一面.这一点,在吐温或许是与生俱来,目在初、中期创作中便有表露(如《跳蛙》的神秘,《哈克贝里·芬》的厌世悲观),只是为其初、中期作品里那乐观爽朗、带有几分粗野的笑声所遮掩;到他晚年,其作品暗色渐浓,悲调渐高,悲观厌世、诅咒人类渐成其思想、创作的主色,由此决定了他晚期作品的基调.本文试图就吐温晚年生活予他的消极影响,尤其是他晚期作品所表露的消极思想浅析、论证作家之为国人不大熟悉的一面,使我国读者对这位伟大作家思想、性格、创作的多重性、矛盾性、复杂性有一全面、符合历史真实的了解. Mark Twain, the average person, is humorous, humorous, optimistic and honest, and has a genuine affection, love and sympathy for the people, especially for ordinary people, and “takes care of their shortcomings.” However, , Most people only see Twain’s positive and optimistic side of optimism and cheerfulness, seldom know, he noticed his extreme and extreme side, his mysticism, his pessimistic and contradictory attitude toward the world, Born in the early, medium and mid-term creations are revealed (such as the mystery of “jumping frogs” and the world-weary pessimism of “Huckleberry Finn”), A few shades of vulgar laughter; to his later years, his works darker, thicker, pessimistic, pessimistic world, curse mankind into the thought, the main color of creation, which determines the tone of his late works. This article attempts to Tween’s late life to his negative influence, especially his late works reveal the negative thoughts, arguing that writers are not familiar with the people, so that our readers on the great writer’s thought, character, creation The multiplicity, contradiction, complexity There is a comprehensive, consistent with the historical real understanding.