《雨》(RAIN),又名《汤普森小姐》,是毛姆的著名短篇小说之一,自一九二一年发表后,曾被多次搬上银幕和舞台。小说描述一个狂热的传教士,起初企图用宗教的力量使一个妓女改邪归正,但他后来却被自己心灵中的邪恶所征服,表面上道貌岸然,背地里却干着伤风败俗的丑事,终于身败名裂。作者运用细腻的笔触和情景辉映的手法,揭露了传教士伪善和卑鄙的真面目,同时也嘲讽了资产阶级道德的虚伪和欺骗性。小说虽然通过麦克费尔大夫对妓女汤普森的遭遇寄予某种同情,但对于造成卖淫现象的社会原因,似乎还缺乏更深刻的分析。 Rain (RAIN), also known as Miss Thompson, is one of Maugham’s famous short stories that has been on the screen and on the stage many times since it was released in 1921. The novel describes a fanatical missionary who at first attempted to use a religious force to turn a prostitute back into shame, but later he was conquered by the evil in his heart. On the surface, he was ostensibly and pugnaciously carrying out a scandalous scandal that finally fell apart. Using delicate brushwork and scene-setting techniques, the author reveals the hypocrisy and despicable realities of the missionaries, while also ridiculing the hypocrisy and fraudulence of bourgeois morality. Although the novel places some kind of sympathy with Dr Macferh on the sufferings of prostitute Thompson, there appears to be a lack of a more profound analysis of the social causes of prostitution.