二战后初期,对主流社会逃避性的流浪、漂泊成了美国文学中一种十分风行的文学主题,这一主题形象的展现在作为主人公的“边缘人”塑造中,此类形象多是一些青年人,有着旺盛活力,但却拒绝把自己年青的生命融汇于主流社会价值观念的约束,导向之中。以一种孤独的漂泊和对个体性感性价值的推崇、肯定,与主流价值观念相离相弃。 In the early post World War II, the wandering and wandering of the mainstream society became a very popular literary theme in American literature. The theme of this theme is manifested in the “marginal man” as the protagonist Some young people, with their vigorous vitality, refuse to integrate their own young life into the constraints and guidance of mainstream social values. With a lonely wandering and esteem for the value of the individual sex, affirmation, and the mainstream values ​​are mutually exclusive.