整篇论文探究了伊迪丝·华顿对十九世纪末期上流社会的抨击以及对男权社会中女性命运的关注,并指出导致女性悲惨命运的根源是男权社会。

• The whole paper intends to make a survey on Edith Wharton's concern for women's status and fates in Old New York in the end of 19th century and the social backgrounds of the story, for the purpose of showing that it is the male chauvinist society that results in the miserable fates of women.