引言《卡斯特桥市长》是哈代的七部“性格与环境小说”中的第四部,这部小说以其结构的曲折复杂,人物命运的起伏多变而著称。书中的主人公亨察德是一位居无定所到处流浪的割草工,经过20年的艰苦奋斗,最终成为令人刮目相看的富商和一市之长。但在一系列冲突与矛盾之后,曾经拥有的一切又都随风而去。在小说结尾,像20年前一样颓废 INTRODUCTION The Mayor of Casterbridge is the fourth of Hardy ’s seven novels about character and environment, which is famous for its complicated structure and ups and downs in the fate of her characters. Het Chad, the protagonist in the book, is a wandering mowing man who has no place to set foot. After 20 years of hard work, he eventually became the most beloved businessman and chief executive of a city. But after a series of conflicts and contradictions, everything once owned has gone by the wind. At the end of the novel, as decadent as 20 years ago