约翰.契弗的短篇小说描写了发生在20世纪美国的变革与冲突。美国人无法预料自己的未来,他们深深感到不安定的社会局势直接威胁到他们的生存,并由此导致了生活的不确定性。运用弗洛伊德的理论分析其作品中主人公对突变所引起的生活的不确定性的内心感受。 John Cheever’s short story portrays the changes and conflicts that took place in the United States in the twentieth century. Americans can not predict their own future. The social situation, which they feel deeply unstable, is a direct threat to their survival and thus leads to the uncertainty of life. Using Freud ’s theory to analyze the inner feelings of her protagonist in his works about the uncertainty caused by the mutation.