大多数评论家认为伊迪斯·沃顿的成名作《欢乐之家》主要展现了女主人公莉莉·巴特是如何悲剧性地成为男权社会的牺牲品,而忽视了莉莉本人为获得精神的独立和解放做出的努力。她由最初期待男人成为自己的救世主转变为自己成为自己的救世主,从而得到精神上的自由,是对男权社会的压迫发出的反抗之声,可谓是一个具有积极意义的成长。 Most critics think Edith Wharton’s fame, “The House of Joy,” mainly shows how the heroine Lily Butter tragically becomes the victim of a patriarchal society, while ignoring Lily himself in order to gain spiritual independence and Emancipation efforts made. From the initial expectation that men become their own savior into their own savior, thus obtaining spiritual freedom, is the voice of resistance against the oppression of patriarchal society, which can be described as a positive growth.