玛丽生活在有着严重种族歧视、女性歧视的非洲南部。作为一名白人女性,玛丽在精神上始终被动地接受环境和命运的摆布,她从未真正理解自由的内涵,狭隘的种族歧视意识又妨碍了她对社会自身的关系做深刻的思考,从而使她的悲剧命运,成为一种必然。 Mary lives in southern Africa with serious racism and discrimination against women. As a white woman, Mary has always passively accepted the environment and fate mentally. She never really understood the connotation of freedom. Her narrow sense of racial discrimination also hindered her from deeply thinking about the relationship between society and her own. Her tragedy fate has become a necessity.