厄普代克著名的短篇小说A&P通篇采用第一人称口吻,讲述了美国一家连锁超市里年轻店员萨米与商场经理伦格尔因个人文化价值冲突而愤然辞职的故事。本文从图形-背景理论出发,通过分析图形与背景的关系及其在作品中的运用,进而分析20世纪50年代美国社会沉闷保守的社会氛围对当时人们个性的压抑和个人价值观念与社会准则的冲突。 Updi’s famous short story, A & P, uses first-person parlance throughout the story to tell the story of Sami, a young clerk in a supermarket chain in the United States, who resigned in anger as a result of personal cultural value conflict. Based on the graphic-background theory, this paper analyzes the relationship between the graphic and the background and its application in the works, and then analyzes the depressed social atmosphere of the American society in the 1950s, the repression of individual personality and personal values ​​and social norms conflict.