《小镇畸人》的文学类别(小说或故事集)一直是评论家争论的一个焦点。通过空间化时间的分析,挖掘小说内部结构,尤其是作者通过并置手法的运用,进一步证明这是一部小说,而这样的编排更加凸显了共同的主旨,即进入机器时代的人们的苦闷和彷徨。舍伍德所揭示的内心边缘化问题,对我们正在进行社会主义现代化时期的中国社会的人们大有裨益。 Literary genres (novels or story sets) of “The Tale of the Town” have been a focus of critics’ debate. Through the analysis of spatialization time, digging the internal structure of the novel, especially the author through the use of juxtaposition, further proves that this is a novel, and such choreography more highlights the common theme, that is, people into the machine era of depression and Imitation 徨. The issue of inner marginalization as revealed by Sherwood is of great benefit to the people in our society who are carrying on the socialist modernization.