Forrest Gump is a retarded and idiot in the eyes of ordinary people, but his kind and simple nature, coupled with his unique talent, made him a college football star, a Vietnam War hero, a world-class table tennis player, a wrestler, a chess master and a business tycoon, received by President Kennedy, decorated by President Johnson, and even inadvertently discovered the truth of Watergate.

Forrest Gump's "vigorous" legendary life seems absurd, but in fact it is the epitome of American history and society in the 1950s and 1970s. Through Forrest Gump's eyes, we can also see this sinister, complex and vulgar world and feel the value of sincere humanity.

Appreciation of Forrest Gump's works

Psychological style is the embodiment of cognition in language. Only by combining the methods of using language with cognitive methods can we deeply analyze the psychological styles of literary works and characters.

Winston, the author of Forrest Gump, flexibly uses the language strategies adapted to the characters' personalities, and is unique in usage, syntax and pragmatics, which fully and vividly shows the protagonist of the novel. The "stupid" psychological style and frank personality, coupled with the "brilliant life" that ordinary people often can't reach with painstaking efforts, have made the works amazing in comedy and satire.

The characters in the novel are lifelike, and the significance of criticizing reality is self-evident, which realizes the unity of characters' language and psychological style, the combination of text form and ideological content, and embodies the unique literary connotation and literary value of the work.