个人主义是美国文化的核心,是美国最主要的价值观。本文试图从广义的个人主义在西方文化的地位和从殖民地时期到超验主义盛行时期个人主义在美国的发展入手,分析纳撒尼亚·霍桑这位19世纪最著名的小说家之一的个人主义观点——自我忏悔式的个人自助,反对极端个人主义——提倡不事完美、真诚克制的个人主义。 Individualism is the core of American culture and the most important American value. This article attempts to start with the generalist individualism’s position in Western culture and the development of individualism in the United States from the colonial period to the transcendentalism to analyze Nathaniel Hawthorne, one of the nineteenth-century most famous novelists Individualist viewpoints - Self-confessing personal self-reliance, extreme individualism - Advocating individualism that is not perfection but in good faith.