《欢乐之家》是美国作家伊迪斯·沃顿的一部带有自然主义痕迹的重要作品。主人公莉莉·巴特美丽聪慧,却孑然一身,在贫困孤独中香消玉陨。其悲剧的根源,首先是她在父母遗传影响下形成了矛盾的性格,徘徊于现实的物质追求和理想的精神追求之间,无法找到其社会定位。其次在金钱和男权至上的社会中,她的贫困和对“自我”的追求更是将她推向了悲剧的深渊。由此可见莉莉·巴特的悲剧不仅是性格悲剧也是社会悲剧。 The House of Joy is an important piece of artwork by Edith Walton, a naturalized American writer. The protagonist Lily Bart beautiful bright, but all alone, in the poverty lonely Xiang Yu jade meteorite. The root causes of its tragedy, above all, formed a contradictory character under the influence of her parents’ inheritance, hovering between the pursuit of material reality and the spiritual pursuit of ideals, and unable to find her social orientation. Secondly, in the society where money and patriarchal supremacy, her pursuit of poverty and “self ” pushed her further into the abyss of tragedy. This shows that the tragedy of Lily Bart is not only a tragedy of personality but also a social tragedy.