菲茨杰拉德的《夜色温柔》在文学史上的地位仅次于《了不起的盖茨比》,但学者的研究兴趣纠结于这部小说的自传因素,对其文本内涵的研究并不充分。本文通过研究小说中的一些代表人物的塑造,考察其文本内涵,并揭示该小说是如何展现20世纪二三十年代美国人的精神世界的。 Fitzgerald’s “gentleness of the night” is second only to “the great Gatsby” in the history of literature. However, his interest in research is entangled in the autobiographical factor of this novel, and his research on the connotation of the text is not sufficient. This article examines the textual connotation of some representative figures in the novel, and reveals how the novel presented the American spiritual world in the 1920s and 1930s.