《红色英勇勋章》是美国著名作家斯蒂芬·克莱恩的经典之作,这部小说一经出版就受到文学领域的广泛关注,也奠定了克莱恩在美国文坛上的重要地位。这部小说刚开始出版时很多人都将它看成一部现实主义的作品,但实际上作者通过象征主义的手法来表现他的思想。克莱恩对主人公进行描绘的过程其实是他对英雄主义的一种阐释,这种英雄主义与荷马史诗中的那些传统的英雄主义有类似的地方,但作者在这部作品中对荷马史诗中的英雄人物所持有的那种比生命 The “Red Heroes Medal” is a classic of the famous American writer Stephen Klein. Once published, this novel has drawn widespread attention in the field of literature and laid an important position in the American literary world. When the novel was first published, many people regarded it as a realistic work, but in fact the author represented his thought through symbolism. Klein’s delineation of the protagonist is actually an interpretation of heroism that shares some similarities with those of traditional heroism in Homer’s epic, but in this work, The kind of life held by heroic characters