舍伍德·安德森(1876—1941)是美国文学史上重要的自然主义小说家,其代表作是发表于1919年的《小城畸人》。法国自然主义文学大师及爱弥尔·左拉认为自然主义作家第一要务就是要做到真实感。真实感涵括两个层面的含义:客观真实和心理真实。以此来解读《小城畸人》中的自然主义,可以看出安德森是一位更加关注小镇居民的畸形心理的自然主义小说家及其高度的社会责任感。 Sherwood Anderson (1876-1941) is an important naturalistic novelist in the history of American literature. His masterpiece is “The Truth of the Little Town”, which was published in 1919. French master of naturalistic literature and Emile Zola believe that naturalist writers first priority is to be realistic. Realistic connotation of the meaning of two levels: objective reality and psychological reality. In order to interpret the naturalism in the “Tortoise”, we can see that Anderson is a naturalistic novelist who pays more attention to the malformation of the town dwellers and has a high sense of social responsibility.