The paper is devoted to the discussion from Robinson Crusoe to analysis the relationship between one’s character and fate. The purpose of this paper is from Robinson Crusoe to judge the decision effect of people’s character on the fate and to reveal the deep nature of Robinson in Daniel Defoe’s Robinson Crusoe by taking his social background,family environment,experiences that he underwent and the 18th century British moral standards and conception of value into consideration. Through analyzing Robinson’ character,which had both positive elements as bookishness,kindness,curiosity and so on and negative traits as occasional cowardice, cruelty,defiance and so forth,indicating that character itself has neither good nor bad points but lies in how to handle it properly.