Thomas Hardy的小说 The Distracted Preacher具有阅读的多义性。它是批判现实主义文学的标准的显性文本 ,我们从中可窥见现实主义创作的一般原则和潜在的现代主义文学的重要因素 ,从中可探寻现代主义反抗社会现实的某些倾向。正是基于对现实的批判 ,The Distracted Preacher表现出现实主义与现代主义的承接与共生。 Thomas Hardy’s novel The Distracted Preacher has a reading ambiguity. It is an explicit version of the standard of critical realism literature, from which we can get a glimpse of the general principles of realist writing and potential factors of modernist literature, from which we can explore certain tendencies of modernism to resist social reality. It is precisely based on the critique of reality that The Distracted Preacher shows the acceptance and symbiosis of realism and modernism.