Bellow attempts to discover, through his fiction and his characters, the pattern and meaning of human life, the spiritual crisis that modern man suffers in an impersonal and mechanized urban world.

• 借助其作品及人物，贝娄分析了现代人在冷漠、机械的城市生活中所承受的精神压力，并试图洞察现代社会中人类生活的模式与意义。