《金罐子》是1978年出版的《约翰·契弗短篇小说集》中的一篇。这是一部契弗自选的短篇小说精华作品集,从中我们可以看出作者本人对自己这部小说的看中和偏爱。在这篇小说中,约翰·契弗向读者展示了一对在美国梦的支撑下艰辛度日,渴望着有朝一日能够出人头地,过上富足生活的美国年轻夫妇。在历经不断的希望与失望、挣扎与失败的过程后,这对夫妇仍然对生活抱有积极和乐观的态度,既表明了作者对虚伪、冷酷的现实社会的批 “Golden Jar” is published in 1978, “John Cheever short stories” in one. This is a collection of short stories from Qifu’s own choice, from which we can see the author’s fancy preference for his own novel. In this novel, John Chevron shows the reader a pair of American young couples who, under the auspices of the American dream, are struggling to find their way to a prosperous life. After continuous hope and disappointment, struggles and failures, the couple still had a positive and optimistic attitude to life, which not only showed the author’s criticism of hypocrisy and cruel reality