美国小说家伊丽莎白·斯特劳特凭借《奥丽芙·基特里奇》获得了2009年的普利策小说奖。作者通过对小说中形形色色人物的描摹,表达了两个并存的主题:一个是显性的,即表面的绝望;另一个是隐性的,即深层的希望。在阅读这部作品的时候,我们往往被作品中充斥的“愤怒、嫉妒、伤害、背叛、流言”所蒙蔽,从而忽视了希望的主题。细细品味,我们不难发现作品表面的绝望下隐藏着热切的希望和对生命的渴望。当代美国女作家伊丽莎白·斯特劳特(Elizabeth American novelist Elizabeth Stroud won the 2009 Pulitzer Prize for Novel with Olivier Kitt Ridge. By describing the various characters in the novel, the author expresses two coexisting themes: one is explicit, that is, superficial despair; the other is hidden, that is, deep hope. When reading this work, we are often overshadowed by “anger, jealousy, hurt, betrayal, rumor” in the works, ignoring the theme of hope. Savor, we can easily find under the desperation of the work hidden eager hope and life’s desire. Contemporary American woman writer Elizabeth Stroud