《一个旅行推销员之死》是杰出女作家尤多拉韦尔蒂的著名短篇小说,曾被评论界誉为表现南方社会畸形人生活和心理状态的佳作。本文运用神话原型批评理论对其进行解读,揭示主人公悲剧命运的原因。一、理论基础瑞士心理学家卡尔·荣格(Carl Gustav Jung,1875-1961),是神话原型批评的创始人,原型意象和集体无意识是荣格原型批评理论的核心内容。原型(archetypes)是集体无意识的主要内容。原型不是人生经历过的事情在大脑中留下的记忆表象,它 “The Death of a Travel Salesman” is a famous short story by the excellent woman writer Yudra Welti, who has been hailed by commenters as a masterpiece of the life and psychology of the deformed man in the South. This article uses the theory of mythological archetypal criticism to interpret it to reveal the reasons for the tragedy of the protagonist. I. Theoretical Basis The Swiss psychologist Carl Gustav Jung (1875-1961) is the founder of mythological archetypal criticism. Archetypal imagery and collective unconsciousness are the core contents of Jung’s archetypal criticism. Archetypes are the main elements of collective unconsciousness. Archetypes are not the memory representations left in the brain of things experienced by life