在索爾貝婁的作品中，他經常傳達小說人物從自我否定到自我肯定的基本敘事模式。書中主角不時探索形而上的目標，藉以對抗物質世界摧殘人類本性的阻力。他們嘗試透過上下求探的過程，確保本身獨特的個體。小說中，貝婁先是藉著尋常瑣碎事物營造建構事實表相，然後，力圖超越現實，進一步強調想像力或形而上的理念對於自我肯定的重要。本文的旨在透過「對話式」的敘事模式，探討《漢伯特的禮物》一書中的自我呈現，揭示貝婁筆下人類自我肯定和尊嚴的不可抹滅。第一章介紹貝婁的生平與其小說中虛構世界的梗概。第二章探討自我的多樣性面貌，主要針對內在自我和社會性自我之間的相互衝擊。接續的兩章論述裡探討的議題，除了說明小說中人我之間關係的運作外，尚包括人類自我肯定過程中內在聲音的體現。結論中指出，貝婁確信自我的肯定和人類尊嚴是芸芸眾生超越侷限的不二法門。

　　In most of Saul Bellow's writings, he displays a fundamental pattern of human existence from self-denial to self-realization. His heroes always embark quests for metaphysical realities or ideal objects that enable them to resist the　dehumanizing forces of the material world. Through the process of incessant quest, they try to assert their individualities. In his novels, Bellow usually creates an air of reality or actuality that has been located in quotidian events. He then moves beyond it to attach importance to imagination or metaphysical hunches for the realization of selfhood. This thesis aims to explore the realization of selfhood problematized in Humboldt's Gift from the narrative mode of dialogue, "an active dialogic penetration into the unfinalizable depths of man." Chapter One provides some biographical data of Saul Bellow and the general pattern of his fictional world. Chapter Two focuses on the interaction among the manifold images of the self: mainly, the correlation of the inner self and the social self. The following chapters deal respectively with the necessity of dialogic relationships between self and other, and the aspects of inner voices concerned with the development of selfhood.