His sensory pleasures are a rebellion against both sexual inhibition and commercialism, and the story is filled with rantings against the entire American puritanical capitalistic lifestyle.

• 同是半自传体小说，米勒的主人公是从布鲁克林区跑去浪迹欧洲的穷小子，感官享乐既是反禁欲的又是反商品的，充满破口大骂整个美国清教徒式资本主义生活的狂野。