《只争朝夕》被很多评论家认为是索尔·贝娄最优秀的小说。该小说描述了汤米·威尔姆一天的生活。威尔姆是一位失败者,他丢了工作,被父亲和妻子抛弃。最后,他唯一的精神寄托泰姆金医生在骗取他的钱财后也消失了。笔者通过运用梅尔文·希曼的异化理论,从主人公威尔姆对生活无法控制,视行为之无意义和行无法理解之事三个角度分析该人物的异化。通过这三个平行层面的论述,笔者向读者呈现出一个饱满、立体的异化者。这对理解威尔姆这个形象和贝 “Selling the day” is considered by many critics as the best novel of Saul Bellow. The novel describes Tommy Wilms day’s life. Wilm was a loser who lost his job and was dumped by his father and wife. In the end, his only spinner, Dr. Temkin, vanished after cheating on his money. By using Melvin Seaman’s theory of alienation, the author analyzes the alienation of the character from the perspective that the protagonist Wilm has no control over life, the nonsense of behavior and the unintelligible behavior. Through these three parallel levels of discussion, the author presents a full, three-dimensional alienator to readers. This understanding of Wilm this image and shellfish