在《老妇谭》里,康斯登斯和索菲亚是性格完全迥异的姊妹俩,一个内敛、顺从,一个叛逆、独立,然而两人却都逃不脱“孤独终老”的命运。自小受到父权压制的作者本涅特,在很大程度上表现了对狭隘的男权专制的怀疑,并力图走出专制制度的束缚,不过他仍未能超越男性主导的意识形态的樊篱,无法、也不可能回答“女性如何才能找到真正‘自我’”这一现代女性运动也力图解决的问题。 In The Old Woman Tan, Constance and Sophia are sisters of completely different personality, a reserved, obedient, rebellious, independent, yet neither escapes the fate of “loneliness.” Bennett, the author of childhood repression by patriarchy, largely demonstrated his suspicion of a narrow patriarchal dictatorship and strove to get out of the shackles of an autocratic system. However, he still failed to surpass the male-dominated ideology, It is impossible and impossible to answer the question “How can a woman find a true ’self’” that the modern women’s movement seeks to solve.