凯瑟琳·曼斯菲尔德作品中的老年男性是20世纪初英国中产阶级老年男性的典型代表。他们处于金钱和权力焦虑、性焦虑及死亡恐惧等老年危机中。危机的根源是他们把财富、权力、体貌和性能力等外在因素当成了是否具备男性气概的评判标准,这是对男性气概在定义和价值取向上的曲解和误读。真正的男性气概应该是一种勇气、责任,是一种内在的人格品质和德行。作家通过对老年男性在家庭和人际关系中所面临危机的刻画,暗示男性应该回归内心,接纳自我,找回自身的主体性,摒弃男权文化中压抑人性的种种规约。 Older men in Catherine Mansfield’s work are typical representatives of middle-aged, elderly men in the UK at the beginning of the 20th century. They are in an age-old crisis such as money and power anxiety, sexual anxiety and fear of death. The root cause of the crisis is that they regard external factors such as wealth, power, physical appearance and sexual ability as the masculine evaluation criteria. This is a misinterpretation of misconceptions and values ​​of masculinity. True masculinity should be a kind of courage, responsibility, is an inherent quality of personality and virtue. Through the portrayal of the crisis the elderly men face in their family and interpersonal relationships, the writer suggests that men should return to their hearts, accept themselves, retrieve their own subjectivity, and reject the various laws restricting human nature in the patriarchal culture.