当代美国作家威廉斯泰隆在他的长篇小说《苏菲的选择》中巧妙地穿插了西方古典音乐的旋律,使得小说中主人公波兰天主教徒苏菲凭借音乐来释放自身的负罪感,并且在死神的面前选择沉浸在音乐的抚慰中。当她和她的内森——犹太人拥抱着走向终点的那一刻,死亡在音乐中得到升华。本文通过西方古典音乐的主题背景与小说的两大主题——负罪感和死亡的连接,探讨音乐在推动故事情节和烘托小说主题中所起的重要作用,使我们进一步地透析主人公苏菲的悲惨命运。 Contemporary American writer William Tyrone in his novel “Sophie’s Choice” skillfully interspersed Western melody of classical music, making the hero of the novel Polish Catholic Sofie rely on music to release their guilt, and death In front of the choice of immersed in the music of comfort. As she and her Nathan-Jews embraced the end, the death was sublimated in music. Through the connection between the theme of Western classical music and the two major themes of the novel, namely, guilt and death, this paper explores the important role played by music in promoting the storyline and in the theme of the novel so that we can further analyze Sophie’s Tragic fate.