《金苹果》是尤多拉·韦尔蒂短篇小说集的代表作品之一,小说集中的7个故事环环相扣,展示了美国南方社会的广阔画卷,它通过对南方传统家庭的消解﹑南方淑女的解构和新女性的重建,质疑了传统女性伦理道德判断,揭示出女性伦理道德的嬗变,并由此完成了对南方传统的挑战和颠覆,重拾南方发展的信心。 Golden Apples is one of the representative works of the collection of short stories by Yudra Welti. The seven stories in the novel are interlocked and show the vast picture of the southern American society. Through the digestion of the traditional family in the South, The deconstruction of the southern ladies and the reconstruction of the new women questioned the traditional ethical judgments of women, revealed the evolution of women’s ethics and morality, and thus fulfilled the challenges and subversion of the South’s tradition and regained their confidence in the development of the South.