在小说《警察与赞美诗》中,作者欧·亨利运用诙谐的笔触对社会的下层人士进行描写与刻画,揭示了当代的社会现实,作品展现了当代的警察对那些犯罪人的“容忍”与无视,但对那些无辜的人们进行惩罚的社会现象。一、小说的创作背景当欧洲批判的现实主义文学写作开始一点点走向衰败时,美国受南北战争的影响文学有了深刻的变化,现实主义创作由此兴起,并一步步开始发展。现实主义写法出现在资本主义渐渐变得腐朽的时间段,此时 In the novel “Police and Psalms,” the author, O. Henry, uses humorous strokes to depict and describe the lower classes in society, revealing contemporary social reality. The work shows contemporary police’s tolerance of criminals, And social phenomena that ignore but punish innocent people. First, the novel’s creative background When the critical literary writing in Europe began to decline a little bit, the United States by the Civil War influenced the literature has undergone profound changes, the rise of realism, and gradually start to develop. Realist wording appears in the decaying period of capitalism, at this time