爱丽丝·门罗,2013年诺贝尔文学奖获得者,以其精湛的短篇小说艺术享誉全球。从第一本短篇小说集开始,她就引起了学界的关注,学者们从地域特色、女性主义、叙事特色、生态批评等各个角度解读了其作品。本文试图从时代背景角度解读门罗作品,解释时代思潮给予门罗作品的影响。爱丽丝·门罗从20世纪60年代出版第一部作品,这个时间与西方社会“新时代运动”的发端是平行的。 Alice Monroe, winner of the 2013 Nobel Prize for Literature, is renowned worldwide for her superb short-story art. Starting from the first short story collection, she has drawn the attention of academics. Scholars interpret their works from various angles, including regional features, feminism, narrative features and ecocriticism. This article attempts to interpret Monroe’s works from the background of the times and explain the influence of the thoughts of the times to Monroe’s works. Alice Monroe’s first book, published since the 1960s, parallels the beginning of Western society’s New Age Movement.