约翰.厄普代克以其细腻而略带嘲讽的风格著书立说,作品多围绕他终生迷恋的三大秘密:性爱、宗教和艺术三大主题展开。本文以他的代表作兔子四部曲的第一部《兔子,跑吧》为蓝本,试析约翰.厄普代克怎样怀着巨大的悲惘之心刻画人性的悲剧,在“被掏空了意义”的现代生活里,小人物如何左冲右突,企图逃离困境,实现自我,追寻人生的意义,却始终陷于困顿之中,郁郁而终的悲剧现状。 John Updike, writing in his exquisite and slightly sarcastic style, writes about three major secrets of his life-long fascination: sexuality, religion and the arts. Based on his first book “Rabbit, Running”, the representative of Rabbit’s four novels, this essay attempts to analyze how John Updike portrays the tragedy of human nature with a great sense of compassion. "In the modern life, how small people left and right, trying to escape from difficulties, to realize themselves, to pursue the meaning of life, has always been trapped in the midst of depression, the tragedy of the status quo.