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伊迪丝·华顿是20世纪美国最有名的女性作家。出生在老纽约名门望族的她,深谙上流社会保守僵化的道德观念,洞悉被做作虚伪的行为准则所禁锢的男女困境,并运用精妙的讽刺,揭露了资产阶级道德观的虚伪。“华顿的多部作品真实地再现了当时上流阶层的日常社交生活和遵从的习俗。”[2](290)不仅如此,她善于表现人物的内心世界,用细腻的笔触展现他们受到社会观念和规范压抑时内心的矛盾与痛苦。新婚之初,Waythorn对他的妻子
Edith Wharton was the most famous American woman writer in the 20th century. Born in Old New York, she is well-versed in the conservative and rigid ethics of upper-class society and her insight into the plight of men and women imprisoned as hypocritical code of conduct. Using exquisite satire, she exposes the hypocrisy of bourgeois morality. “Many of Wharton’s works truly reproduce the daily social life and the customs of the elite at that time.” [2] (290) Not only that, she is good at expressing the inner world of characters, showing them in delicate brushstrokes Conflict and misery of inner feelings when social concepts and norms are suppressed. Waythorn to his wife at the beginning of the wedding