英美短篇小說人物描寫
① 歐亨利短篇小說集人物形象分析（德拉）急急急，在線等
臨近聖誕，一對貧窮但恩愛的夫婦正煩惱該送甚麼聖誕禮物給對方，他們都因為沒有錢買禮物而感到沮喪，終於，他們想到了換取金錢的方法：妻子用她一頭漂亮的長發換了一條鉈表用的金鏈，送給丈夫；丈夫用他心愛的鉈表換了一套梳子，給妻子梳理長發……
這是個既悲哀又溫馨的故事，充滿了吸引力，歷久不衰。每到聖誕節，人們總會想起這個故事中的小夫妻，並慶幸自己的幸福。我讀了歐亨利的小說後，對當中情節記憶深刻，那是因為他的小說有著獨特的個性，尤其是故事的結尾，更令人難以忘懷。
短篇小說篇幅小，結尾尤其重要，令人意外的結尾，最能扣人心弦、讓人思索。歐亨利的短篇小說經常以這樣特別的方式結尾，以至後人把令人感意外的結尾稱為「歐亨利」式的結尾，可見他的寫作方式是多麼的令人注目。
短篇小說篇幅小，結尾尤其重要，令人意外的結尾，最能扣人心弦、讓人思索。歐亨利的短篇小說經常以這樣特別的方式結尾，以至後人把令人感意外的結尾稱為「歐亨利」式的結尾，可見他的寫作方式是多麼的令人注目。
他的作品構思巧妙，每到結尾時，筆鋒一轉，來個一百八十度的轉變，以一個意料不到的局面，帶來強烈的沖擊與吸引力，讓讀者留下深刻印象。例如《警察與聖歌》寫一位年輕人因感人生無希望而做盡壞事，希望能在獄中了結一生，可是警察總是沒有拘捕他。後來到他終於覺悟自由的寶貴時，卻被警察因游盪罪而拘捕，反映出人生無常，很多事情也是在我們的意料之外。這樣的結局令人驚奇之餘，玩味不已，讓作品結束得言有盡而意無窮，使我在合卷之後仍思索回味。
突破事物發展的常態，以一個意料不到的轉折作結局固然是一種成功的小說寫作方法，但也不宜每篇套用，否則會傷害作品本身的內容，失去作品的內涵。濫用意外的結尾，會使人覺得煩厭，要適當地使用方能收出人意表之效，所以歐亨利不是在每篇的作品中都有明顯的意外式結局，他所寫的故事雖在意料之外，卻在情理之中，令我再三回味，經久耐讀/
② 美國短篇小說作家歐亨利善於描寫小人物的不幸生命，揭示資本主義的不平等與虛偽，在藝術上，這種寫法稱為
答案：C高爾基的海燕
高爾基的海燕
這是一首散文詩，兼有散文和詩的特點。它通過對暴風雨到來之前的大海景象的描繪和對海燕戰斗英姿的刻畫，深刻反映了1905年俄國革命前急劇發展的革命形勢，熱情洋溢的歌頌了俄國無產階級革命先驅者堅強無畏的戰斗精神，預言沙皇的黑暗統治必將崩潰，號召廣大勞動人民積極行動起來，迎接偉大的革命斗爭。
約翰克里斯朵夫
是一部通過主人公一生經歷去反映現實社會一系列矛盾沖突，宣揚人道主義和英雄主義的長篇小說。小說描寫了主人公奮斗的一生，從兒時音樂才能的覺醒、到青年時代對權貴的蔑視和反抗、再到成年後在事業上的追求和成功、最後達到精神寧靜的崇高境界。
復活
他的作品描寫了俄國革命時的人民的頑強抗爭，因此被稱為「俄國十月革命的鏡子」列寧曾稱贊他創作了世界文學中「第一流」的作品。《復活》取材於一件真實事件，主要描寫男主人公涅赫柳多夫引誘姑媽家女僕瑪斯洛娃，使她懷孕並被趕出家門。後來，她淪為妓女，因被指控謀財害命而受審判。男主人公以陪審員的身份出庭，見到從前被他引誘的女人，深受良心譴責。他為她奔走伸冤，並請求同她結婚，以贖回自己的罪過。上訴失敗後，他陪她流放西伯利亞。他的行為感動了她，使她重新愛他。但為了不損害他的名譽和地位，她最終沒有和他結婚而同一個革命者結婚。
狂人日記
是魯迅的一篇短篇作品，收錄在魯迅的短篇小說集《吶喊》中。它也是中國第一部現代白話文小說。首發於1918年5月4日4卷5號《新青年》月刊。內容大致上是以一個「狂人」的所見所聞，指出中國文化的朽壞。
③ 求英文小說中描寫人物的精彩段落
1、大門開了，走進來一位年輕的郵遞員。只見他全身衣服濕透了，褲腿卷得高高的，從膝蓋到腳全沾滿了泥水，好像剛從泥地里爬起來似的。他手裡捧著一包用油布包著落郵件，顧不上抹臉上的雨水，對屋裡人說：「《兒童時代》來啦！」
2、姐姐身材苗條，長得很健壯，比我整整高了一個頭。她的脖子略長些，惹我生氣時，我就會喊她「長勁鹿」。她剪著挺有精神的運動頭，看起你來，兩眼忽閃忽閃的，好像會說話。
3、這個青年看上去不到二十歲，兩條彎彎的眉毛下有一雙機靈的眼睛，一看就知道是個能乾的人。在一隻挺標致的鼻子下面，卻是一張大嘴，生得兩片厚厚的嘴唇。人們常說：「厚嘴唇的人笨嘴拙舌。」可是他卻能說會道，是個健談的人。
4、哥哥的眼睛高度近視，處處離不開眼鏡，就像個「睜眼瞎子」一樣，只要把他的眼鏡摘下來，在我面前他就像綿羊一樣服服帖帖。一天下午，哥哥要洗頭了。他吩咐我給他拿肥皂換水。我得意地想：哼！我先給你跑跑腿，然後再治你。一會兒，哥哥伸長了脖子，把肥皂沫打得滿頭滿臉都是。我一看時機到了，就悄悄地把哥哥的盆拿走了。哥哥搓完後去洗頭，一捧水，捧了個空。他忙去找，可剛一睜眼，肥皂沫就殺得他直流眼淚。他像盲人摸路一樣，東摸摸，西摸摸，好容易才摸起了毛巾，把眼一擦，可眼睛還是模糊的，就去找他的眼鏡。
5、等她走近，我才有機會仔細地打量了她一番：只見她齊耳的短發，一雙眼睛大大的，嘴角還帶著笑。上身穿一件紅色衣服，別著「蘇州十中」的校微。她溫和地對我說：「小妹妹，坐我的車吧！」說著，她把自行車推了過來。
6、二哥是賣海產品的，他一年四季風里來雨里去，起早貪黑，非常辛苦。他個子不高，長相也不怎麼太好，有時讓人看了不像好人，但他賣的貨下得快，周圍的商販都佩服他。
7、車廂里，一位高挑個兒的姑娘，依窗眺望。她結實，健美。微微捲曲的黑發攏在腦後，紮成兩綹，輕巧地垂掛著。深紅色的運動衫領子，悄悄地露出深藍色的外套。可以感覺到，這個姑娘的身上充滿著青春的活力和蓬勃的朝氣。
8、我的叔叔二十來歲，是個碼頭工人，長方臉，臉色黑里透紅，個兒挺高，長得很結實，叫人一看就知道是個身強力壯的小夥子。
9、在老媽媽的左邊有一位秀麗端莊的姑娘，斜倚在椅子上。她一頭美麗的金發，一條大辮子一直拖到背部。一身黑裙更襯託了她白凈柔美的臉龐。她低著頭朝前面望著什麼，眼神中流露出悲憤和關懷。手中的綳帶已經卷好，卻忘記丟入筐中。
10、這是個二十歲出頭的姑娘，圓臉蛋潤潤的，眉很赤，細長的雙眼閃動著爽直的、熱乎乎的目光；老是未言先笑，語言也帶著笑，像唱歌似的。她走路時把身子的重心放在足尖上，總像要蹦跳、要飛。一眼就可以看出，她是個純真而歡樂的女孩子，奇怪的是她那過分素凈的打扮，與她的性格很不相稱，也和那些愛漂亮的繅絲姑娘迥然不同：藍布棉襖，黑粗呢短大衣，草綠色長褲，脖子上的紗巾是白的，扎小辮的頭繩是根黑毛線。
11、我哥哥剛滿二十歲，五大三粗的身材，勁鼓鼓的。頭發又黑又硬，一根根向上豎立著，兩道濃眉下襯著一雙大眼睛，瞪起眼看人就像小老虎。特別是那雙大腳板，穿上42碼的球鞋，走起路來蹬蹬響。
12、表姐剛來的時候，身穿一件方格襯衣，補了幾塊補丁，腳穿一雙沾著泥土的白涼鞋，走路說話都不敢大聲，我們都說她土裡土氣。可是現在，我們不敢說表姐了。你看她穿一件漂亮的上衣，一條緊身牛倉褲，一雙鋥亮的高跟鞋，脖子上戴著閃光的金項鏈，肩上披著長長的黑發，顯得神氣大方。回到家裡又說又笑，像生活在蜜糖中一樣。
13、說她是阿姨倒不如說她是大姐姐，她頂多不過二十歲，穿一件褪色的素花格上衣，短短的小辮齊到肩頭。她總是笑眯眯的，一會兒清晰地報站名，一會兒迅速地點錢、售票，耐心地回答外地乘客提出的種種問題。她那熱情、和藹的語言，使車廂里充滿了春意，這春意溫暖著每個乘客的心。
14、星期天，我去排隊買米。在我前面的是一個男青年，他算不上胖，但也夠健壯的了。圓圓的臉龐上，兩道細眉，一雙大眼睛，配上稍小了點的鼻子，也還算勻稱。就是嘴唇厚了點，像非洲人似的。
15、哥哥只有二十多歲，一頭黑發，中等個子，身材勻稱。他說不上很漂亮，但是五官端正，從他眼睛裡可以看出他是個聰明而有精力的年輕人。他給人安靜與和善的感覺，而且臉上還帶著孩子般的稚氣。
16、哥哥在我們村農機隊開拖拉機。他個子高高的！身體很魁梧，黑紅的臉上有一塊塊傷疤，每當我抬起頭看到這些傷疤的時候，腦海里便浮現出了一位拖拉機手給我描述的動人故事……
17、姐姐十八九歲。由於奔跑和焦急，圓圓的臉上滲出了汗珠兒，彷彿一個沾著露水的熟透的蘋果。她的兩隻眼睛像黑寶石一樣，亮晶晶的，閃耀著聰敏、慧巧、活潑和剛毅的光芒；秀長的睫毛，好像清清的湖水旁邊的密密的樹林，給人一種深邃而又神秘的感覺。烏黑的長發，即柔軟又纖細，隨著河風在腦後飄拂著。
18、這時候，一個高個子青年人匆匆忙忙地朝了鋼口跑去。他頭上戴著鴨舌帽，鴨舌前吊著一副藍色的眼鏡，滿臉通紅，流著汗水，腳穿帆布襪子和厚鞋，手上戴著帆布手套。
19、一個十七八歲的姑娘，坐在旁邊的一塊石頭上。黑紅的臉頰上沾滿了灰塵。她並不像有些小販那樣起勁地吆喝，只是等有人來問時才答上幾句，說起話來總是低著頭，顯得有些靦腆。
20、看他年紀不過二十來歲，臉色蒼白，像沒有睡好覺似的皮泡臉腫。他老是皺著眉頭，不大說話。笑紋幾乎在他的臉上是絕了跡似的。他穿著一個褪了色的藍布大褂，好像永遠是穿著這么一個一樣。清瘦的下巴殼，亮聳的肩膀，顯得很沒生氣。
21、我的哥哥大方，熱情，開朗，大大咧咧，莽莽撞撞，長得像頭小牛犢似的，打籃球是中鋒；打排球是主攻手；游泳，更是「浪里蛟龍」，十歲時就橫渡長江，成為當年橫渡長江隊伍中年紀最小的選手，照片還登上了《長江日報》。不到十五歲，個子也長得一米七六，大夥兒都說這是塊運動員的料子。
22、靠近東窗，坐著一個年輕的解放軍戰士。被汗水浸透了洗得發白的軍衣，緊裹著他那健壯而勻稱的身軀。他那白中透紅的清秀的面孔，像塗了油彩似的閃閃發光。兩條漆黑的、細長的眉毛，有力地向上揚，將到頂端時，才彎成形。一雙像熟透了的葡萄一樣又黑又大的眼睛，機靈地、警覺地掃視著充滿汗味和傳出鼾聲的車廂。他的右手，很自然地伸到衣襟下面，汗濕的手掌，輕輕握著腰間的小手槍。
23、這個二十多歲的女司機，倒是有股生龍活虎的勁頭，那短短的頭發，那裹在脖子上的手巾，那被太陽曬和汗水漬得褪色的花布衣服，表明她常在露天的環境中工作。她沒有那種職業女司機戴著墨鏡灑脫高傲的神態，看那架勢，好像是開「東方紅」或者「鐵牛55」的。
24、這時，一陣熱烈的掌聲打斷了他的思緒，他猛的一抬頭，看見肖大名正從講台上走下來。他立馬又緊張起來。他的目光四處移動，似乎在搜尋什麼，他是那麼的不安，甚至不敢接觸任何人的目光。然後他又把頭低下去，好像怕被別人看見似的。他的十個手指頭不停地搓來搓去，一會兒便被汗水打濕了，滑滑的。
25、「怎麼辦呢，該不該上去呢？」唐明賊似的看看四周，比先前更緊張了，兩腿在桌底下直發抖。「去，一定得上去，這是最後一個競選項目了，為了以後同學們能對我另眼相看，我一定要競選到這勞動委員。……可是……」唐明深深地咽下一口口水，頭低得快貼到桌上了，呼吸更急促了。「李華一下來，我就上去……」他這么想。
④ 任何一篇英美短篇小說的英語論文
《呼嘯山莊》人物關系結構
Title：
Catherine's dilemma between love and marriage in Wuthering Heights
——The Psychoanalysis of love triangle relationship with Freud』s theory of personality
Abstract：
Wuthering Heights tells a story of superhuman love and revenge enacted on the English moors. In this thesis, an attempt is made to analyze the love triangle relationship which leads to Catherine's dilemma between love and marriage in Wuthering Heights by virtue of Freud』s theory of personality.
Key words：
Wuthering Heights Freud』s theory of personality love triangle relationship
In Catherine's heart she knows what is right, but chooses what is wrong. It is her wrong decision that pushes her into the inextricable [LunWenJia.Com]dilemma between her love and marriage; it is her wrong choice that plunges the two families into chaos. In the mind, she is truly out of her way.
According to Sigmund Freud(1856—1939), the structure of the mind or personality consists three portions: the id, the ego, and the superego.「The id, which is the reservoir of biological impulses, constitutes the entire personality of the infant at birth. Its principle of operation, to guard the person from painful tension, is termed the pleasure principle. Inevitable frustrations of the id, together with what the child learns from his encounters with external reality, generate the ego, which is essentially a mechanism to minimize frustrations of the biological drives in the long run. It operates according to the reality principle … [LunWenNet.Com]The superego comprises the conscience, a partly conscious system of introjected moral inhibitions, and the ego-ideal, the source of the indivial's standards for his own behavior. Like external reality, from which it derives, the superego often presents obstacles to the satisfaction of biological drives.」「In the mentally healthy person, these three systems form a unified and harmon
ious organization. Conversely, when the three systems of personality are at odds with one another the person is said to be maladjusted.」 Here Catherine's tragic psychological process may be well illustrated by Freudian psychoanalysis.
「I cannot express it; but surely you and everybody have a notion that there is, or should be, an existence of yours beyond you. What were the use of my creation, if I were entirely contained here？」 Catherine's strange words reflect that the intelligent Emily Bronte had been earlier pondering over a same question in her work. What on earth is「the existence of Catherine's beyond Catherine」？
Here we may believe that Heathcliff stands for Catherine's instinctual nature and the strongest desire—her 「id」 in the depths of her soul; Edgar, her ideal 「superego」, represents another part of her personality: the well-bred gracefulness and the superiority of a wealthy family; and she, herself is the 「ego」 tortured by the friction between the two in the disharmonious situation.
In the light of Freud's theory of personality, 「the superego is the representation in the personality of the traditional values and ideals of society as they are handed down from parents to children.」 Catherine's choice of Edgar as her husband is to satisfy her ideal 「superego」 to get wealth and high social position, which are the symbol of her class, on the basis of the ecation by her family and reality from her early childhood. She is a Miss of a noble family with a long history of about three hundred years. Only the marriage well-matched in social and economic status could be a satisfaction for all: her family, the society and even her practical self. 「It would degrade me to many Heathcliff now ... if Heathcliff and I married, we should be beggars？」 This is her actual worry for her future. Catherine yields to the pressure from her brother, and alike, in truth, she is yielding to the moral rules of society, without the approval and identification of which, she could not live a better life or even exist i
n it at all.
However, Catherine underestimates what her other more intrinsic self would have effect on her. The most remarkable claim by Catherine herself may be the best convincing evidence to distinguish the different roles of Heathcliff and Edgar—her 「id」 and her 「superego」:
「My great miseries in this world have been Heathcliff's miseries, and I watched and felt each from the beginning: my great thought in living is himself. If all else perished, and he remained, I should still continue to be; and if all else perished, and he was annihilated, the universe would turn to a mighty stranger: I should not seem a part of it. My love for Linton is like foliage in the woods: time will change it. I'm well aware, as winter changes the trees. My love for Heathcliff resembles the eternal rocks beneath: a source of little visible delight, but necessary. Nelly, I'm Heathcliff! He's always, always in my mind: not as a pleasure and more than I am always a pleasure to me, but as my own being. So don't talk of our separation again: it is impracticable.」
It was a happy thought to make her love the kind, wealthy, weak, elegant Edgar, yet in submission to her superego to oppose against her id, she would fall into a loss of the self. Since the id is the most primitive basis of personality, and the ego is formed out of the id, Catherine's life depends wholly on Heathcliff， as the whole connotation and truth of her life in the cosmic world, for its existence and further more for the significance of her existence. Heathcliff is the most necessary part of her being. She marries Edgar, but Heathcliff still clutches her soul in his passionate embrace. Although she is a bit ashamed of her early playmate, she loves him with a passionate abandonment that sets culture, ecation, the world at defiance. Catherine's wrong choice for marriage violates her inner desires. The choice is a victory for self-inlgence—a sacrifice of primary to secondary things. And she pays for it.
On one hand, Catherine doesn't find the heavenly happiness she was longing for. Though as a girl 「full of ambition」and 「to be the greatest woman of the neighborhood」 would be her pride, the enviable marriage could only flatter her vanity for a second. After her marriage, the comfortable and peaceful life in the Grange was just a monotonous and lifeless confinement of her soul. She feels chocked by the artificial and unnatural conditions in the closed Thrushcross Grange— a world in which the mind has hardened and become unalterable.「If I were in heaven, Nelly, I should be extremely miserable. 」 Catherine eventually knows that the Lintons' heaven is not her ideal heaven. She and Heathcliff really possess their common heaven. Just as Catherine says,「Whatever our souls are made of, his and mine are the same; and Linton's is as different as a moonbeam from lightning, or frost from fire.」
Catherine doesn't want to live in the Lintons' heaven; on the other hand, she has lost her own paradise that she ever had with Heathcliff on the bare hard moor in their childhood. The deepest bent of her nature announces her destiny—a wanderer between the two worlds. When she is alive, she occupies a position midway between the two. She belongs in a sense to both and is constantly drawn first in Heathcliff's direction, then in Edgar's, and then in Heathcliff's again and at last she loses herself completely. Her childish illusion to use her husband's money to aid Heatllcliff to rise out of her brother's power has vanished in thin air. And her constant struggle to reconcile two irreconcilable ways of life is in vain too, which only caused more disorder in the two worlds and in herself as well.
In Freudian principles, should the ego continually fail in its task of satisfying the demands of the id, these three factors together—the painful repression of the id's instinctual desires, the guilt conscience of revolt against the superego's wishes, and the frustration of failure in finding outlets in the external world- would contribute to ever-increasing anxiety. The anxiety piles up and finally overwhelms the person. When this happens, the person is said to leave hallucinatory wish-fulfillment, then a nervous radical breakdown, and in the end may finish the person off. Catherine is destroyed into psychic fragmentation by the friction between the two. At the height of her Edgan-Heathcliff torment, Catherine lies delirious on the floor at the Grange. She dreams that she is back in her own old bed at Wuthering Heights 「enclosed in the oak-paneled bed at home, and my heart ached with some great grief…my misery arose from the separation that Hindley had ordered between me and Heathcliff.」Still dreaming, she t
ries to push back the panels of the oak bed, only to find herself touching the table and the carpet at the Grange:「My late anguish was swallowed in a paroxysm of despair. I cannot say why I was so wildly wretched ... and my all in all, as Heathcliff was at that time, and been converted at a stroke into Mrs. Linton...the wife of a stranger: an exile, and outcast.」 She attempts to forget the lengthy days of years of life without her soul even in her temporary derangement.「Most strangely, the whole last seven years of my life grew a blank! I did not recall that they had been at all.」 Her mental and physical decay rapidly leads to the body's mortal end. She dies and seems to have none into perfect peace.
But even after her death, she is still a wandering ghost. In Chapter 3, Lockwood, the lodger in Catherine's oak-paneled bed at Wuthering Heights dreams about the little wailing ghost:
「The intense horror of nightmare came over me: I tried to draw back my arm, but the hand clung to it, and a most melancholy voice sobbed, 『Let me in-Let me in』.『 Who are you?』…『Catherine Linton』, it replied, shiveringly…『I'm come home: I'd lost my way on the moor!』…Terror made me cruel; and finding it useless to attempt shaking the creature off, I pulled its wrist on to the broken pane, and rubbed it to and fro till then blood ran down and soaked the bedclothes: still it wailed, 『Let me in!』…it is twenty years, twenty years. I've been a waif for twenty years!」
Catherine aspires to be back in her heaven even being a spirit. But leer self-deceptive decision has made her fall from her and Heathcliff's heaven full of demonic love and her never docile or submissive nature has drawn her out of her and Edgar's heaven filled with civilized emptiness in the meantime. She pushes herself into her tragedy, the endless dilemma between her love and marriage, which won't end up with her death.
Bibliography：
1.Bronte Emily，Wuthering Heights，Beijing：Foreign Language Teaching and Research Press，London：Oxford University Press 1995
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3.Travis Trysh，Heathcliff and Cathy，the Dysfunctional Couple，The Chronicle of Higher Ecation，Washington，2001
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⑤ 歐·亨利短篇小說集中有關人物描寫
最後一片葉子~
初見貝爾曼時，作者通過外貌描寫告訴我們：貝爾曼是一個性格暴躁、酗酒成性、牢騷滿腹、鬱郁不得志的老畫家，他生活失意有不滿於現狀，不得不借酒消愁、發泄；又通過語言描寫，當他得知瓊珊的病情和「白痴般的想法」後，「諷刺地咆哮了一陣子」，寫出他的善良和同情心。再見貝爾曼時，貝爾曼已經身體虛弱，病了兩天就去世了。貝爾曼是因為冒雨畫最後一片葉子，得了肺炎而去世的。他的人格得到升華，崇高的愛心、自我犧牲的精神由此得到了展現。
⑥ 跪求3-5篇英語短篇小說的主要內容與人物評價！！！（用英文！~）
2. In a small town of st petersburg, have a very naughty, but a good boy, tom, he hates school for the insipidity of the life, hoping that can and the like the exciting life. one day, tom and huckleberry had left home and went to a desert island, a few days of his life. they know that a case, a critical moment, tom has a very fierce ： joe. tom was afraid of retaliation by joe,Was always uneasy. he and huckleberry a haunted house when he found joe, then the murderer death in the cave. tom and huck ley had a lot of coins.
1。The old man and the sea is a fisherman eighty-four days have hooked a fish, and nearly died of hunger ； but he still wouldn't admit defeat in the eighty-fifth day catches a great fish. fish mullin pulled the boat to the sea, but the old man still held, even if there is no water, no food, no, no, he does not lose heart. after two days and nights later, he eventually killed the fish, and put it on a ship.But many of the shark was immediately come to rob him of killing them, all ； him to last only a broken on the tiller as a weapon. however, the fish were still wet, finally, the old man just dragged a 魚骨 head. he went home in bed, from dreams of yesteryear to find a good time.
⑦ 英國的短篇小說，有哪些值得推薦
個人推薦下英國著名小說家狄更斯的《信號員》吧，也是英國十大名著之一吧。這個小說讀完特別讓人深思，主要是講小鎮一個信號員總能預測災難的東西成為現實。他成了唯一一個災難的預測者。知道最後一次預測他也成為犧牲者。也表現了作者對底層人民悲慘命運不能改變的悲憫。看完之後我覺得引用波波的話吧：人生中%99的時間可能都是不幸的但是我們要善於發現其中%1的萬幸，好好珍惜現在的每一天吧。
⑧ 歐亨利短篇小說有哪些主要內容
有《麥琪的禮物》、《警察和贊美詩》、《最後一片葉子》、《愛的犧牲》、《紅毛酋長的贖金》等。
1、《麥琪的禮物》
講述的是一個聖誕節里發生在社會下層的小家庭中的故事。男主人公吉姆是一位薪金僅夠維持生活的小職員，女主人公德拉是一位賢惠善良的主婦。
他們的生活貧窮，但吉姆和德拉各自擁有一樣極珍貴的寶物。吉姆有祖傳的一塊金錶，德拉有一頭美麗的瀑布般的秀發。
為了能在聖誕節送給對方一件禮物，吉姆賣掉了他的金錶為德拉買了一套「純玳瑁做的，邊上鑲著珠寶」的梳子；
德拉賣掉了自己的長發為吉姆買了一條白金錶鏈。他們都為對方舍棄了自己最寶貴的東西，而換來的禮物卻因此變得毫無作用了。
4、《愛的犧牲》
該故事講述了一對貧窮卻熱愛藝術的年輕夫妻，為了成全對方不得不放棄各自摯愛的藝術追求的感人故事，同時展現了19世紀美國草根階層生活的艱辛。
喬和德麗雅是一對從事藝術的年輕夫婦，此時的他們正面臨現實生活的貧窮和是否繼續藝術之路之間進行抉擇的窘境。
因源於彼此的深愛，妻子德麗雅主動放棄了藝術，瞞著丈夫在一家洗衣房當女工以支持他能夠在藝術上繼續深造；而丈夫喬也為了妻子德麗雅能夠繼續教音樂，主動放棄了自己的藝術之路，在同一家洗衣房當修理工，希望以此來支撐家庭的經濟支出。
該小說中，主人公們用彼此純潔的心靈、真摯的情感和崇高的犧牲精神給予了愛情最美麗的詮釋，盡管他們的努力無法從根本上改變生活和藝術之間的矛盾，但卻讓對方看到了相互為愛的付出，看到了彼此愛情的忠貞。
生活的貧窮和捉襟見肘並沒有磨滅他們對愛情的堅貞和信仰，表面上看，夫妻雙方雖然都放棄了自己的摯愛追求，但彼此之間純真、炙熱的愛情卻得以進一步升華。
正如該小說的篇名所描述的那樣，愛是需要有犧牲的，只要彼此間有真愛，再大的犧牲都是值得的。也正是因為有了愛，人與人之間才能夠相互理解，才能夠互相體貼，才能夠讓愛情永恆。
5、《紅毛酋長的贖金》
講述了一個綁架的故事「我」與比爾在一個名叫頂峰鎮的地方，綁架了這個鎮上有名望的居民埃比尼澤多塞特的獨子，「我們」原想靠他去敲詐埃比尼澤；
然而「我們」萬萬沒想到，這個孩子捉弄人，一開始，「我們」三個扮印第安人玩，後來這個孩子越來越囂張，越來越捉弄人，還把其中一個人弄傷了，讓比爾差點成了精神崩潰者。
最後「我」把勒索信送到埃比尼澤的家，可後來「我們」卻被埃比尼澤給敲詐，實在是因為「我們」無法忍受著個孩子，最後的結果，「我們」把孩子送回去，並且給了他父親250元。