《小伙儿古德曼·布朗》是19世纪美国作家霍桑的著名短篇小说之一,是一部探讨人性的寓意小说。赫尔曼·梅尔维尔评价它“像但丁一样深奥”。而霍桑本人则认为它是“偏僻小说中略带有苍白色彩的花朵”。本文以霍桑生活的时代和家庭背景为切入点,通过对小说中多元化意象的分析,以解读作品中所昭示的人性艺术,从而诠释作者所探寻的“人类心灵的真相”——人性。 “Goodman Brown” is one of the famous short stories written by the American writer Hawthorne in the 19th century. It is a moral novel about human nature. Herman Melville rates it as “esoteric like Dante”. Hawthorne, on the other hand, considered it as “a slightly pale flower in remote novels.” This article takes Hawthorne ’s life time and family background as the starting point, interprets the “truth of the human mind” that the author explores through the analysis of the pluralistic images in the novel, human nature.