In the background of race, class and morality in sixties and seventies of the twentieth century, the contemporary American writer Philip Roth's American Pastoral tells a story about a Decline fate of the Jewish family of Levove. Through the hero's process in seeking his true self from the loss of self to suffering in the social expectations, it deconstructs the myth of the United States. In the self-transition, it reflects the opposition conflicts between self and society, and self and world. And the individual suffering from various social alien force shows that the true value of human life is the pursuit of self-nature.%当代美国作家菲利普·罗斯的《美国牧歌》以美国二十世纪六七十年代的种族、阶级和道德为背景，讲述了犹太人利沃夫一家由盛转衰的命运。通过主人公在社会期许中的自我迷失到历经苦难后寻找真实自我的过程中，解构了美国神话。在身份的转变中体现个体和社会、自我与世界的对立冲突，以及个体饱受社会种种异己力量的无情挤压的艰难处境，也表明人类生活的真正价值在于追寻自我本质。
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