@article{LiuGao, author = {Liu, Jiyuan and Gao, Hongxia}, title = {An Analysis on People and Society in >You Can't Go Home Again< from the Perspective of Fromm's Sociological Theories [ 从弗洛姆社会学视角论《你不能再回家》中的人与社会] [Application of Fromm's theories to art]}, series = {Journal of Taiyuan University of Technology (Social Sciences Edition) [太原理工大学学报(社会科学版)], No. 2 (2012), pp. 54-58.}, journal = {Journal of Taiyuan University of Technology (Social Sciences Edition) [太原理工大学学报(社会科学版)], No. 2 (2012), pp. 54-58.}, abstract = {As an important representative of American literature in the early 20th century, Thomas Wolfe is undoubtedly the most controversial and greatest modernist writer. >You can't go home again< is his last novel and it focuses on depicting the social picture of the United States of America during the Great Depression and the different fates of the lower-middle class people. Based on Erich Fromm's sociological theories, this paper intends to explore common people's lack of power, loneliness and anxiety in modern industrial system from the aspects of loneliness of human, fascism and totalitarian society, human nature and salvation, and tries to explain the psychological mechanism that causes the rise of fascism and universality of the totalitarianism, thus revealing Wolfe's inclination of social criticism and the thematic transformation in his late writing. It is drawn a conclusion that capitalist industrial society not only destroyed the harmony between man and nature, destroyed the beautiful natural environment, but also exerted negative influence on human mind and spirit.}, language = {zh} }