约翰·斯坦贝克是美国的一位小说作家,他对社会现状表现出热切的关注,于1962年获得“诺贝尔文学奖”。斯坦贝克的文学作品几乎都是中篇小说,在小说的创作过程中,融入了许多戏剧元素,因此被斯坦贝克称为是“剧本小说”。“剧本小说”把小说中的叙事特性和剧本中的戏剧特征结合在一起,从结构形式上看,剧本小说中的“剧本”就是 John Steinbeck, a novelist in the United States, has shown keen interest in the social status quo and won the Nobel Prize in Literature in 1962. Almost all of Steinbeck’s literary works are novella. Steinbeck called them “script novels” during the process of creating the novel by incorporating many dramatic elements. “Novel ” combines the narrative features in the novels with the dramatic features in the scripts. From the structural point of view, the “script” in the script novels is