摘要
隐喻是一种文学作品中常见的修辞手法，它具有多义性特点。马克斯·舒尔曼的《爱情就是谬误》中的浣熊皮大衣具有多重隐喻意义。本文试从物化的货品、物欲与虚荣、财富与权力、男人特质、自然的力等几个不同的隐喻意义探索马克斯·舒尔曼的多重写作意图。帮助读者更深层次地理解作者对当时美国青年男女的不正确的爱情观的批判，从而在文学接受中达到高潮、形成共鸣。
Metaphor is a common rhetorical device in literary works and it has the feature of polysemia. Raccoon coat conveys multiple metaphorical meanings in Max Shulman＇s Love is a Fallacy. This essay analyzes its metaphorical meanings as materialized commodity, material desire and vanity, wealth and power, man characteristics, and nature force to explore the author＇s multiple writing purposes so as to help the readers to further understand his criticism towards the wrong vision of love in America and reach the climax in literature acceptance.
