斯蒂芬·茨威格的小说《心灵的焦灼》主要表现了人物的感情纠葛。同情和爱情本来是两种不同的情感,但是由于情感之间是没有界限的,可以相互转化的,所以在人们日常交往中可能会分不清楚同情和爱情。小说中主人公霍夫米勒对感情认识和处理的方式可以说是没有分清两者的异质性,从而将女主人公艾迪特推向了死亡,我们从中可以体会到作者的情感纠结。 Stephen Zweig’s novel The Soul of the Heart mainly displays the emotional entanglement of characters. Sympathy and love were originally two different emotions, but because emotions are boundless and can be transformed into each other, people may not be able to distinguish between compassion and love in their daily interactions. In the novel, Huff Miller’s understanding and handling of feelings can not be said to distinguish the heterogeneity of the two, thus pushing the heroine Aidite to death, from which we can understand the author’s emotional tangle.