《毛猿》是美国戏剧大师尤金·奥尼尔的早期剧作之一。该剧讲述了司炉工扬克遭遇米尔德里德侮辱性的称呼之后,丧失自我、寻找归属,最后死于动物园的故事。自由选择、他人即是地狱、世界是荒诞的存在主义思想在剧中人的身上得以印证。尽管相距90多年,笔者以为中国“80后”在改革开放、工业化以及信息化的生活中也面临相似的困境。本文旨在通过分析“80后”的存在方式,试图给快节奏生活中的人们一点粗浅的建议。 “Mao Ape” is one of the early dramas of American theater master Eugene O’Neill. The play tells the story of Stoker Yankees suffered an insulting comradely name, lost himself, looking for ownership, and finally died in the zoo story. Freedom of choice, others are hell, the world is absurd existentialist ideology in the play to prove it. Although separated by more than 90 years, I think China “80 ” also faces similar difficulties in the life of reform and opening up, industrialization and informationization. The purpose of this paper is to try to give some advice to people in fast-paced life by analyzing the existence of post-80s.