达夫妮·杜莫里哀的短篇小说《瞬间》采用时空穿越的手法展现了女主人公埃利斯夫人穿越前后两种截然不同的性格特质:穿越前是贤妻良母,“家中天使”;穿越后却全然成了一位独立勇敢的新女性。然而故事的两种可能性结局——埃利斯夫人被撞死或回归原位无不说明了她对父权制抵抗的不彻底性,也反映了杜莫里哀作为女性作家的身份焦虑。 Daphne Du Moli sad short story “moment” through the use of time and space through the way to show the heroine Ellis through two distinct personality traits: before crossing the wife and mother, "Angel in the House ; After crossing it has completely become an independent and brave new woman. However, the two possible outcomes of the story, Mrs. Ellis’s being killed or returned to its original position, illustrate her incompleteness in her resistance to patriarchy as well as the anxiety about her identity as a female writer.