尤多拉·韦尔蒂是“南方文学”的代表作家,不仅具有短篇小说家的美誉,在长篇小说方面还有所成就,其在1970年出版的长篇小说《失败的战争》使她跻身美国的一流作家行列。本文主要使用巴赫金的复调理论对小说《失败的战争》进行探究,以此来分析尤多拉.韦尔蒂如何展现美国南方农村的特定群体在特殊的历史条件下的命运以及美国社会的变革。 Yudra Weerti, the representative writer of Southern Literature, not only has the reputation of a novelist, but also has made great achievements in his novels. His novel “The Failed War”, published in 1970, made her Among the top American writers. In this paper, we use Bakhtin’s polyphony theory to explore the novel “Failed War” to analyze how Udola Welti shows the fate of particular groups in rural South America under special historical conditions as well as in American society change.