《狗的风光日子》是阿尔奇.韦勒创作的第一部长篇小说。韦勒在这部小说中运用象征主义与现实主义手法表现了白人社会中土著群体,尤其是土著青年的生活现状。文章拟从人物象征、颜色象征、主题象征三个方面分析象征手法在整部作品中的运用及其蕴意,探究当代澳大利亚土著青年在多元文化身份中面临的认同困境。 The Dog’s Scene is the first novel by Archie Weller. Weller uses the symbolism and the realism in this novel to show the living conditions of the indigenous groups in white society, especially the indigenous youth. The article intends to analyze the use and meaning of symbolism in the whole work from three aspects: the symbol of human beings, the symbol of color and the symbol of the subject, and to explore the identity predicament of contemporary indigenous Australians facing multicultural identity.