1998年,菲利普·罗斯凭借他的著名小说《美国牧歌》获得普利策文学奖殊荣,这部创作并发表于20世纪90年代的小说刻画的是20世纪初以来半个多世纪的美国社会,越战时期的美国社会是这部小说刻画的重点。半个世纪以来,美国几乎每十年就会有一个大的文化变迁,首先是爵士时代,然后到全美经济大萧条,二战中美国争得了世界第一强国的头衔,但是二战后垮掉的一代让美国变成了一个充满荒淫和颓废 In 1998, Philippe Rose won the Pulitzer Prize for Literature with his famous novel “American Pastoral.” This novel, published in the 1990s, characterizes the American society for more than half a century since the early 20th century. American society during the Vietnam War was the focus of this novel. For half a century, the United States has had a major cultural change almost every 10 years. It started with the jazz era and then with the Great Depression of Great Britain. The United States won the title of the world’s most powerful nation in World War II. However, the generation after the collapse of World War II Let the United States become a place full of licentiousness and decadentness