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On New Year's Eve, the whole family gathers together. "There are eight apartments in the demolition fund, six for your brother and two for your sister." Mom peeled the orange without even raising her head, as if to say that the weather today is nice. "What about me?" I asked. "Don't you have a new quilt? It's made of silk and costs several thousand yuan." Mom handed the peeled orange to her brother and answered matter-of-factly. I dropped out of school and worked for ten years to support my brother's studies abroad and my sister's plastic surgery. In the end, my efforts were only worth a quilt. "Okay." I nodded, "The quilt is quite good." Seeing that I didn't object, my mother's eyes flickered and she added: "When you get married, your in-laws will naturally take care of you."

The wilderness metaphor not only runs through the initial colonial period and the War of Independence in the United States, but is also of great significance in the subsequent westward expansion movement, the transformation from agriculture to industrialization, and the brewing, start, development, and maturity of modernization and urbanization processes such as the World Wars. The evolution of wilderness imagery has a profound and complex correlation with the modernization process of American literature and the development of American ecological awareness. This book aims to trace the origins of the conceptual metaphor of wilderness imagery, and takes the brewing, initial development, maturity, and transition periods of the American modernization process as the research interval. It focuses on reading and sorting out the works of American literary writers from the colonial period of the 17th century to the late 20th century. It conducts a comprehensive review and exploration analysis of the depiction and evolution of wilderness imagery under the ideological and cultural backgrounds of different periods in the American modernization process, and uses ecological criticism and spatial geography. Learning is the starting point for research, and interdisciplinary research methods such as sociology are introduced to elaborate on the spatial significance and artistic characteristics of wilderness imagery in various periods in the process of American literary modernization. It refines the different connotations of this conceptual metaphor, searches for and outlines the evolution trajectory of the American literary tradition, the special artistic essence and characteristics reflected behind it, and the inevitability of its emergence, existence and development, foresees its possible prospects, and re-examines the history of the relationship between humans and nature in the western United States.