爱德加·劳伦斯·多克特罗以其小说《拉格泰姆时代》而备受关注,在美国文坛占据重要地位,美国评论界对他的这部小说给予了高度认可。“多克特罗的小说往往呈现复杂多变的情节,虚构人物和历史人物常常同时出现,并由此而备受瞩目。”他一方面具有后现代主义作家的共性,另一方面又具有独特的创作风格。他往往通过作品来再现历史,展现不同时代的风貌,以此来触动读者心灵。在这部作品中,多克特罗虚构了三个美国家庭,这三个家庭代表了20世纪美国家庭的主要类型,作品对这三个家庭的命运进行了叙述,并将具有时代特征的历史人物和历史事件穿插其中,实现了虚构与事实的结合。作品对当时工人、黑人和新移民的生活境况进行了描写,展现了其生活的艰辛和悲苦,寄予了作者对劳苦人民的同情。对于当时的种族歧视问题,作 Edgar Lawrence Dototro has drawn much attention in the novel “Ragtime” and occupies an important position in the American literary world. The American critics have highly accorded this novel. “Doktero’s novels often show a complex and changeable plot, fictional figures and historical figures often appear at the same time, and thus much attention.” "On the one hand, he possessed the commonality of postmodern writers, on the other hand Has a unique creative style. He often touches the reader’s mind through the works to reproduce the history and show the style of different times. In this work, Duoctero fictionalizes three American families, which represent the main types of American families of the twentieth century, whose works deal with the fate of the three families and describe the history of the times People and historical events interspersed among them, to achieve a combination of fiction and reality. The work described the living conditions of the workers, blacks and new immigrants at the time, showing the hardships and misery of his life and placing the author’s sympathy for the working people. For the racial discrimination at that time,