【摘要】 长篇小说 《欢乐之家》是美国著名女作家伊迪丝·华顿的成名作。本文通过分析小说所揭示的上流社会、当时妇女的社会地位及处境， 以及女主人公莉莉·巴特的性格弱点， 探讨了莉莉的悲剧成因更多还原

【Abstract】 The House of Mirth is a well known novel by Edith Wharton, one of the greatest American women novelists. The article analyses the main causes of its heroine’s tragedy by presenting the novel’s social background and the upper class society in the late 19th century and by examining women’s social status and conditions as well as Lily’s weaknesses.更多还原