无论是来自于社会的集体创伤还是个人创伤,创伤记忆已成为奥尼尔创作素材的主要源泉。本文从创伤理论这一视角,分析了《毛猿》中生活在美国社会底层现代人所受到的集体创伤,从而更好地理解他笔下那些无助地生活在现代困境中的悲剧人物。 Whether it comes from social collective trauma or personal trauma, traumatic memory has become the main source of O’Neill’s creative material. From the perspective of trauma theory, this article analyzes the collective trauma suffered by modern humans living in the bottom of American society in Mao Ape so as to better understand the tragic characters in his novels living in modern predicament.