贝内特是19世纪末20世纪初英国现实主义作家的杰出代表,我国对于他的研究还处于起步阶段。《北方来的人》是贝内特早期的一部自传小说,小说描写主角理查德在大城市的追梦过程,反映出了作者本身的知识分子形象。我们可以从个性的顽固、梦想的破灭和婚姻的妥协三个方面来分析理查德在成为城市知识分子的道路上失败的原因。 Bennett is an outstanding representative of British realist writers in the late 19th and early 20th centuries, and his research on China is still in its infancy. “The Man from the North” is one of Bennett’s early autobiographical novels. The novel describes Richard’s dream-hunting process in the big cities and reflects the author’s intellectual image. We can analyze Richard’s failure on the path of being an urban intellectual from three aspects: the stubbornness of personality, the disillusionment of dreams and the compromise of marriage.