夏洛蒂·勃朗特在《呼啸山庄》再版序中写道:“要找一个真正慈爱的忠心耿耿的典型,请看耐莉·丁的性格。”这一意味深长的结论误导了后来的读者:英国著名评论家Lord David Cecil竟认为耐莉为大家“提供的这一正常社会标准,使得小说中的主人公们那些令人惊心动魄的古怪行为更加突显”;受人尊敬的英国评论家Queenie Dorothy Leavis也坦言耐莉是“一位标准的妇女,在养育所有的孩子中,她那真正的女性特征得以最好的证实”;我国有学者纯粹直言不讳,觉得耐莉就是“一个可靠的叙述者以及故事的忠实仆人”。 In his reprint of Wuthering Heights, Charlotte Bronte wrote: “To find a loyal, loyal, typical character, look at Nelly Ding’s character.” This profound conclusion misled Later readers: The normal social standard that Lord David Cecil, a well-known British critic, has found Nelly has for everyone, has made the most striking and weird oddities of the protagonists in the novel more prominent. “The venerable Britain Critic Queenie Dorothy Leavis admits that Nelly is ”a standard woman whose true female identity is best proven in bringing up all her children.“ Some Chinese scholars are simply outspoken and think Nelly is ”A reliable narrator and the faithful servant of the story ".