澳大利亚著名女作家考琳·麦卡洛的《荆棘鸟》被誉为“澳大利亚的《飘》。笔者对书中女主人公梅吉的儿子戴恩的性格进行分析解读,论证其作为一名典型的理想主义者,试图使理想与现实之间合一,却始终无法完成从而最终走向死亡的必然性。 Australia’s famous female author Colleen McCullough’s ”Thorn Birds“ is known as ”the Gone with the Wind." The author analyzes and interprets the character of the heroine Megg’s son, Dane, as a typical The idealist, trying to unify the ideal and the reality, has never been able to accomplish it, eventually leading to the inevitability of death.