在凌叔华的小说中,我们看到了这些万千女性,她们既不属于幽居深闺、困惑迷惘的旧式少女,也不属于反出闺门、冲决男权藩篱的五四新女性,而是在中国特定社会转型期生成的一个特殊阶层,这就是太太阶层。“辛亥—五四”时期的社会转型是在西学和西力的渗透下,中国本土模式发生的剧烈变异,呈现出旧与新、中与西、传统与现代交锋的拉锯战态势,同时也是传统农业社会向近代工业社会的转变。凌叔华出身名门望族,父亲有多房妻妾,因此她自幼便体验着中国封建大家族中奢华排场而又腐朽呆滞的生活气息,尤其深谙高宅内中产阶级女性苍白单调的精神生活,以及她们久遭压抑、 In Ling Shuhua’s novel, we have seen these thousands of women who are neither old-fashioned girls confused and perplexed nor old-fashioned women who oppose outreach and punish the male-dominated fence but are specifically targeted in China A special social class generated during the transition period, which is the wife class. The social transformation during the period of “Xinhai-May Fourth” was a dramatic variation of the indigenous model in China under the infiltration of western learning and western force, showing a tug of war between the old and the new, the middle and the west, the traditional and the modern, and at the same time It is also the transformation of traditional agricultural society to modern industrial society. Since Ling Linghua was a well-known family member, his wife had many wives and concubines. Therefore, she has experienced the luxury and decadent lifestyle of the feudal family in China since childhood. She is especially familiar with the pale, monotonous spiritual life of high-class middle-class women and her long Repressed,