摘要
Saul Bellow’s novel Seize the Day combines the psychological narrative of Jewish immigrants in the“Happy Age”of the United States and the daily life narrative of modern New York urbanites,revealing the living state of modern urbanites-powerless to the outside world,nowhere to live in the material and spiritual world.They have an unresolved personal pursuit and a“dangling”destiny,which alludes to the problems plaguing modern urban people and the decay of American society.By comparing the characteristics and fate of the protagonist Wilhelm with the character Job in the Bible,this article helps to deepen the understanding of the plights of the protagonist as“Modern Job”,and realize the influence of the American urban society on Jewishness and personal survival in that period.
