《天真时代》出版于1920年,作为长篇小说曾荣获美国普利策奖,代表了其创作者,美国著名女作家伊迪斯·华顿的创作巅峰,并不断获得评论界的高度关注和赞誉。小说以华顿熟知的“老纽约”上流社会为背景,对其社会风貌、习俗和价值观进行了细致入微的刻画。小说中,华顿摆脱了纯粹的女性眼光,以独特的、超越女性意识的第三性视角,成功地塑造了梅和埃伦这两个经典的女性形象,客观地描摹了女性的生命轨迹,精准地探寻和剖析了女性自身的生命蕴涵,把作品中的女性形象赋予了更加客观真实的色彩和更加人性化的描摹。 Naive Age, published in 1920, has won the Pulitzer Prize for the United States as a novel, representing the pinnacle of its creator, Edith Wharton, a famous American woman writer, and constantly receiving the great attention and praise from the critics. . Based on the well-known “old New York ” upper class society known as Walton, the novel makes a detailed description of its social features, customs and values. In the novel, Walton got rid of sheer feminine vision and succeeded in shaping the two classic feminine images of Mei and Ellen with a unique and third perspective beyond feminine awareness, objectively depicting the trajectory of women’s life, It accurately explores and analyzes the inherent implication of women and gives them a more objective and true color and a more humane description.