薇拉·凯瑟是20世纪初美国著名女作家。凯瑟以其独特的女性视角和擅长描写美国中西部边疆拓荒生活而著称。《一个迷途的女人》是凯瑟的代表作之一。从主题意义而言,女主人公玛丽恩·福瑞斯特和小说的讲述者尼尔是处于同一时代的两个人物;在他们身上读者可以看到时代的痕迹。玛丽恩·福瑞斯特这个在小说一开始就引入的已知人物,必须在变革中保护价值观。小说的讲述者尼尔在小说的开头还是个少年,此时他的性格尚未形成,他必须在变革中定义价值观。 Vera Cather is a famous American writer in the early 20th century. Kaiser is known for her unique female perspective and her ability to describe the pioneering life of the American Midwestern frontiers. “A Lost Woman” is one of Cather’s masterpieces. In a thematic sense, the heroine Marion Forrester and the novel’s narrator Neil are two characters in the same era; in their readers readers can see traces of the times. Marion Forrester, a known figure introduced at the outset of the novel, must preserve values ​​in change. Neil, the narrator of the novel, was still a teenager at the beginning of the novel when his character was not yet established and he had to define values ​​in change.