《小城畸人》是美国现代作家舍伍德.安德森的代表作。作品描绘了伴随现代文明的人类的高度异化给人类本身带来的痛苦,这种心灵的隔离和异化使得他们成为众多的“畸人”形象。凯特.斯威夫特就是舍伍德.安德森笔下的众多畸人之一。她对生活的洞见,对爱与理解的追求使得她在小镇上苦苦的寻觅知音。但现代社会中人与人之间的隔离与异化使得她满腔的悲哀,失望和情欲无处诉说,成为寂寞无人识的现代社会荒原上的孤草。 “Tortoise” is the representative of modern American writer Sherwood Anderson. The work portrays the human suffering itself caused by the highly alienated humanity accompanying the modern civilization, which has caused them to become numerous “abnormal people.” Kate Swift is one of the many freaks Sherwood Anderson wrote. Her insight into life, the pursuit of love and understanding makes her hard to find friends in the town. However, the isolation and alienation of people in modern society made her filled with sadness, disappointment and passions nowhere to tell, becoming the solitary grass in the lonely and unknowable modern society wasteland.