It is more tempting to summarize it as 'a portrait of the beauty underlying American miseries and misdeeds', but that plays down the scenes of cruelty and horror, and Ball's disgust with our mores.
更有吸引力的总结是‘对美国的苦难和劣迹背后的美的描绘’，但那又低估了那些残酷和恐怖的画面、以及鲍尔对我们习俗的厌恶。