摘要：American playwright Shepard’s plays are known for their open *** ending of Shepard’s Pulitzer Prize-winning play-buried child is *** critics see this ending as a sign of the rebirth of American families and the revival of American *** this article stands on the opposite position to give a negative answer to Haile’s“That may be the sun”(Shephard,1981,p.66)at the end of the play through illustrating Shephard’s authorization and subversion of two important myths in the play,which is a way of parody in postmodern *** digging the family scandals and corruption of American families in the play,it is expressed that perhaps the natural world has a chance to be reborn,but not human society under the pathetic and corruptive social background.