霍桑许多作品的城市意象是充满物欲、荒凉、颓败、令人压抑的,表现出对现代文明影响之下、在城市文明的加速发展之中的人生状态的深入叩问。那是作家内心感受的描摹。作家以自我强烈的主观性透入城市生活,使城市表现为物理意义上的空间呈现,也是社会性的呈现,是一种文学或文化上的结构体。他的创作审美地展现了人怎样在现代性宏大叙事的冲击下走上失去家园的不归路,表现了作家对人性、人的存在、人生终极问题的探寻,充满着对人前途命运的疑问、焦虑。 Hawthorne’s many works of the city image is full of materialism, desolation, decadent, depressing, showing the influence of modern civilization, in the accelerated development of urban civilization, life in depth inquiries. That is the tracing of the writer’s inner feelings. Writers penetrate urban life with self-intense subjectivity and make the city appear as a physical appearance of space, as well as a social appearance and a literary or cultural structure. His creation shows aesthetically how people embarked on the road to loss of their homeland under the impact of the grand narrative of modernity. This shows that the writer’s inquiry into human nature, human existence and the ultimate problem in life is full of doubts about the destiny of man. ,anxiety.