作为奥尼尔的巅峰之作,《送冰的人来了》是对现代社会和深陷信仰和道德危机的现代人的精辟概括。在剧中各种对立的冲突,如生与死,现实与梦想,过去与未来;然而这些冲突并非评论者所宣称的两极化,完全不可调和。本文拟展示这些冲突不仅不是全然对立的,而且是互补的,可相互转换的。 As the pinnacle of O’Neill, “Ice is coming” is an ingenious summary of modern society and the modern man deeply in the midst of a crisis of faith and morality. The various conflicting conflicts in the play, such as life and death, reality and dream, the past and the future; however, these conflicts are not at all irreconcilable by the critics’ claims of polarization. This article intends to show that these conflicts are not only totally opposite, but also complementary and interchangeable.