笔者结合《七角楼》的文本阐释了它的序,通过对霍桑的自序的阐释,揭示了霍桑在写作中有隐秘呈现社会现实和巧妙抒发多种道德寓意的写作倾向,以及与其对应的霍桑的有关文学审美距离和文学功能的观点。最终通过阐释过程推断了霍桑的文学审美倾向。 Through the explanation of Hawthorne’s preface, the author reveals the sequence of Hawthorne’s autobiography, revealing that Hawthorne’s writing tendencies of presenting social reality in secret and cleverly expressing various moral meanings and their corresponding writing Hawthorne ’s Views on the Aesthetic Distance and Literary Function of Literature. In the end, Hawthorne’s literary aesthetic tendency is deduced through the process of interpretation.