本文用俄国文化符号学家巴赫金的对话理论解析美国女作家埃伦·格拉斯哥的长篇小说《生命之轮》失败的爱情故事。认为作品中男女主人公之所以未能最终走到一起,在很大程度上应当归结于双方对话意识的缺失;双方在“所见之外”方面的障碍以及女主人公“独特自我感”的不足乃是导致恋爱失败的两大对话性因素。 This essay attempts to analyze the love story of the failure of American woman writer Ellen Glasgow’s “Wheel of Life” with the dialogue theory of Russian cultural semiotic scientist Bakhtin. The reason why the hero and heroine failed to finally come together in the works should be attributed in large part to the lack of dialogue consciousness between the two sides, the barriers between the two sides in “outside” and the heroine “unique sense of self” "The problem is the two major discourse factors that lead to the failure of love.