澳大利亚女作家克莉斯蒂娜·斯特德在其小说《热爱孩子的男人》用词技巧娴熟,生动地刻画人物性格,淋漓尽致地展示了19世纪早期西方资本主义经济危机下烦躁不安的家庭婚姻问题。本文以词汇层面的小说文体分析为切入点,讨论词汇与主题的关系。作家结合具体的语言环境甚至使用一些变异的词语或者突出某些词类,体现其别具特色的语言表达方式,渲染自己要表达的主题。 Australian woman writer Christina Stead vividly portrayed her character in her novel The Man Who Loves Children vividly portrays the agitated family marriage under the economic crisis of Western capitalism in the early 19th century . In this paper, we analyze the relationship between the vocabulary and the theme by analyzing the stylistic analysis of the novel at the vocabulary level. Writer combined with specific language environment or even use some of the variation of words or highlight some of the parts of speech, reflecting its distinctive language expression, rendering their own theme to be expressed.