约翰·契佛的短篇小说语言简洁凝练,情节构思巧妙,具有独特的审美效果。契佛短篇小说集的出版曾获得普利策文学奖,并被评论家誉为“美国文学中的里程碑,值得大家一读再读”。契佛认为“短篇小说之能缓和痛苦之情,是长篇小说不能达到一针见血的效果”。这也就不难理解他一生致力于创作短篇小说并且成就斐然的原因。契佛善于将文学作品所要表达的内容、思想与恰当的艺术表现形式相结合,使两者互为补充,相得益 John Chever’s short story concise language concise, clever plot plot, with a unique aesthetic effect. The publication of the Chevron Collection of Short Stories won the Pulitzer Prize for Literature and was praised by critics as “a milestone in American literature that deserves everybody read it again.” Chevron believes that “short stories can ease the suffering of the novel can not achieve a sharp effect”. It is not difficult to understand why he devoted his life to creating short stories and making achievements. Chevron is good at combining the content and thought to be expressed in literary works with appropriate artistic expressions so as to complement and benefit each other