著名小说家查尔斯·狄更斯有着苦难的童年,正因如此他是中外文学史上是第一位用大量笔墨刻画儿童、关注儿童成长的文坛巨匠。作家运用独特的视角去解读成人世界,在这种特殊的模式下作品中的人物亦具有童话特点。本文采用细读文本的研究方法,运用人物功能学理论,分析狄更斯小说《大卫·科波菲尔》人物的角色。 Charles Dickens, a famous novelist, has a misery of childhood. For this reason, he is the first literary master who paints children and pays great attention to children’s growth in the history of Chinese and foreign literature. The writer uses a unique perspective to interpret the adult world, in which the characters in the works also have fairy tales. In this paper, we use the method of reading text carefully to analyze the role of David Copperfield in Dickens’ novels.