Animal Images in 20th Century American Fantasy

Abstract

The artistic image in the novel is not only the carrier of the writer’s narrative activities, but also the most vivid literary element in the story text. In American fantasy in the 20th century, writers not only created a large number of human characters with distinctive personalities, but also created many animal images full of spirituality and vitality. While absorbing nutrients from myths, legends and folk tales, they also endowed the various animals in the novel with unique psychological and emotional characteristics of humans, thereby creating a new depiction of anthropomorphic animals and supernatural animals. These animal images and the human characters in the novel together form a three-dimensional and multiple fantasy world. While expanding the cluster of artistic images in American fantasy, they also fully demonstrate the artistic charm of literary imagination and fiction.