“成功”道路上的“钻石风波”——《尤斯蒂斯钻石》的警示

A "Diamond Storm" on the Road of "Success"——A Warning from The Eustace Diamonds

林德纳认为《尤斯蒂斯钻石》中关于丽萃这一角色的描写“并没有构成对19世纪商品文化所依赖的价值观的挑战”,而是“仅仅挑战了阻碍丽萃消费能力的19世纪社会习俗和文化代码”。这一观点实在有失偏颇。要充分把握丽萃这一形象,仅仅分析林德纳所提到的“双重身份”还不够,还须把丽萃的所作所为放在小说记载的“成功”语境中加以考察。

Lindner maintains that the depiction of Lizzie＇s role in The Eustace Diamonds “does not contest the values that underpin nineteenth-century commodity culture”, but “merely contests the forms of nineteenth-century social practice and codes that inhibit her power to consume”. His view is wide of the mark. In order to have an adequate understanding of the characterization of Lizzie, we not only need to analyze her “double identity” as mentioned by Lindner, but also need to examine her behavior in the context of “success” as recorded in the novel.