麦肯·戴德第二是莫里森笔下失掉黑人文化祖根的男性形象之一。表面上,他是一个成功者,在物质财富上不断获胜,成了白人眼中信得过的黑人;实质上,他的成功是以丧失黑人的价值观念、行为准则为代价的,他不仅背叛了当年父亲的生活信念,远离了黑人传统美德,也违背了基本的人性、道德,引起了自身的人格扭曲、变异,逐渐地置自己于孤立地位,失去了亲情、爱情、族群关系,所以他并不感到幸福快乐。于是就更加变本加厉地追求金钱与利益,进一步远离了黑人精神文化家园,成为一个“成功的失败者”。 McCann IDT Second, one of Morrison’s male images of the ancestral roots of black culture. On the surface, he was a successful man who won continuously in material wealth and became a black man believed by white eyes. In essence, his success was at the cost of losing black values ​​and codes of conduct. He not only betrayed his father Life faith, away from the black traditional virtues, but also contrary to the basic human nature, morality, caused its own personality distortion, variation, and gradually set himself in an isolated position, lost family, love, ethnic relations, so he did not feel happiness. So they are even more aggressive pursuit of money and interests, further away from the black spirit of cultural homeland, become a “successful loser.”