英国现实主义小说家、戏剧家、诺贝尔文学获得者约翰·高尔斯华绥以象征、心理分析以及社会讽刺等手法刻画英国中上等资产阶级人物以及他们的生活而著名。他通过对资产阶级人物生活的描写 ,性格的刻画和心理分析 ,达到了批判和讽刺这些资产阶级人物、揭示资产阶级腐朽堕落和最终衰败的原因这样一个目的。在这一方面 ,短篇小说《日本》比较好地体现了其创作的主题 John Gores Wallace, a British realist novelist and dramatist and Nobel literature laureate, is famous for his portrayal of the upper middle class bourgeoisie and their lives in the United Kingdom by means of symbolism, psychological analysis and social satire. Through the portrayal of the life of the bourgeoisie, characterization and psychoanalysis, he reached the goal of criticizing and sarcasticizing these bourgeois figures and revealing the reasons for the decadent bourgeoisie’s decadent and ultimately declining. In this respect, the short story “Japanese ” better embodies the theme of his creation