家庭伦理问题是美国剧作家爱德华·阿尔比早期独幕剧《美国梦》的中心主题。剧作家描摹了典型美国中产阶级家庭中“金钱至上”的婚姻关系和脱离道德疆域的代际关系,将其中错综复杂的家庭伦理矛盾展现在世人面前。阿尔比借助家庭这一最小社会单位,旨在反映更广泛地社会问题,指出消费主义对美国家庭伦理关系的毁灭性破坏,它造成了人的精神危机,导致人与物、人与人关系的异化。当个体盲目追逐金钱、享乐和个人满足时,人情愈发冷漠,家庭伦理也逐渐迷失。 Family ethics is the central theme of American playwright Edward Albi’s early one-act play “American Dream.” The playwright traced the marriage relationship between “the supremacy of money” and the intergenerational relationship that broke away from moral boundaries in typical American middle-class families, and presented the intricate family ethical contradictions in the world. With the help of the smallest social unit of the family, Albi aims to reflect the wider social problems and points out the destructive destruction of the ethical relations between family members in the United States by consumerism. It has created a human crisis and led to the relations between people, things and people alienation. When individuals blindly chase money, enjoyment and personal satisfaction, people become more and more indifferent, family ethics are gradually lost.