劳拉·埃斯基韦尔的小说《恰似水之于巧克力》,描述了墨西哥资产阶级民主大革命时期一个没落庄园家庭内部四个女性的不同命运,小说一经问世在拉丁美洲文坛引起巨大反响。大部分的文学评论都把视点集中于从小说女主人公蒂塔身上所体现出来的女性意识,但实质上,无论是蒂塔,还是家族三代女性中的其他角色,甚至是作者本人的命运都或多或少受到了男权的影响。本文将从女性主义视角出发,探求小说中所暴露出来的当时墨西哥社会,男权意识对女性角色的期待,限制,甚至是捆绑。 Laura Eschweiler’s novel, “Just Like Water in Chocolate,” described the different fates of four women within a declining Manor home during the Mexican bourgeois democratic revolution. The novel, once published, has aroused great repercussions in the Latin American literary world. Most of the literary criticism focuses on the female consciousness embodied in the novel heroine Dita, but in essence, neither Dita nor other characters in the three generations of the family or even the author himself More or less by the patriarchal influence. From the perspective of feminism, this essay explores the expectations, restrictions and even bundling of the female roles in contemporary Mexican society and patriarchal ideology exposed in the novels.