狄更斯作品中塑造了大量个性鲜明的人物形象,其中既有大量英国社会底层的小人物,也有鲜明的商人形象。相比于前者,狄更斯作品中对商人阶层着墨较少。研究狄更斯作品中的商人形象,对于重新认识狄更斯的生活哲学和创作态度有很强的借鉴作用和意义。一、前言查尔斯·狄更斯是英国文坛巨匠,他的地位和影响力甚至可以和莎士比亚齐名。狄更斯的作品深刻反映了19世纪前半期英国社会的现实,塑造了大批鲜活的穷人和被欺压者的形象,反映了作者对英 Dickens works in shaping a large number of distinctive characters, including both a large number of British society at the bottom of the small people, but also a distinctive image of businessmen. Compared to the former, Dickens works on the businessman class less ink. Studying the businessman’s image in Dickens’s works has a strong reference and significance for re-understanding Dickens’s philosophy of life and his creative attitude. I. Preface Charles Dickens is a British literary master, and his position and influence can even par with Shakespeare. Dickens’s work profoundly reflected the reality of British society in the first half of the 19th century and shaped the image of a large number of living poor and oppressed people,