Wrote at the beginning of the 20th century and published in 19 19, the novel "A Weird Man in a Small Town" takes the American society from the end of the Civil War to the outbreak of the First World War as the background, and comprehensively and truly depicts the whole picture of American society in that historical period, and many economic phenomena reflected in it are branded with distinct marks of the times. /kloc-The history of the second half of the 0/9th century is the history of the rapid economic expansion of the United States. 1866 after the civil war, the United States began to form a national unified market, and the American national economy entered a stage of stable development. Millions of immigrants have solved the problem of labor shortage in American economic development and promoted the invention and application of new technologies and processes. The development of the western region not only expanded the territory of the United States, but also opened up a huge free economic market and promoted the development of agriculture, industry and transportation. The development of division of labor and technological progress have greatly improved labor productivity. In this environment, the American economy developed rapidly and became the world's leading industrial power in the late18th century. Before the First World War, it successfully changed from an agricultural country to a capitalist industrial power. As a product of the times, a series of economic phenomena, such as urbanization, agricultural industrialization and traffic modernization, reflected in the novel "A Weird Man in a Small Town" are in line with the social reality at that time.