《石人》是19世纪美国著名浪漫主义小说家纳撒尼尔·霍桑的一部短篇佳作,小说延续了霍桑作品一贯的宗教主题,蕴含着霍桑对清教徒狂热、专断的质疑。不过值得注意的是,在批判清教主义局限性的同时,霍桑继承了美国文学中哥特风格的传统,并巧妙地将其融于小说的创作之中,从而使得哥特风格与小说的宗教主题相得益彰。《石人》的哥特式艺术手法丰富了哥特小说的表现形式,推动了哥特小说在美国的进一步发展。 Stone Man is a short masterpiece of Nathaniel Hawthorne, a famous American romantic novelist in the 19th century. His novel inherits the consistent religious theme of Hawthorne ’s work and contains Hawthorne’ s fanatical and dictatorial questions about the Puritans. However, it is worth noting that while criticizing the limitations of Puritanism, Hawthorne inherited the Gothic style tradition in American literature and skillfully blended it into the creation of novels so as to make Gothic style and novel’s Religious themes complement each other. The Gothic style of Shireng enriches the manifestations of Gothic novels and promotes the further development of Gothic novels in the United States.