契弗的短篇小说《巨型收音机》中主人公艾琳沉迷于用巨型收音机窃听他人隐私以形成自己虚幻的道德优越感,肆意消费来力图维持中产阶级虚幻的幸福感。本文拟揭示收音机和中产阶级符号性消费对其人性的奴役与控制,从科技异化、消费异化、人性异化三方面探讨小说中的异化思想,从而更深入地领略作品的创作思想和艺术价值。 Irene, the hero of Chevron’s short story “Giant Radio,” is obsessed with tapping the privacy of others with giant radios to form his illusory sense of moral superiority, wantonly spending money in an effort to maintain the illusory sense of happiness of the middle class. This article intends to reveal the bondage and control of the symbolic consumption of radios and the middle classes to their human nature and to explore the alienation ideas in novels from the perspectives of technological alienation, consumer alienation and human alienation so as to deepen the appreciation of the creative thinking and artistic value of the work.