薇拉.凯瑟是美国二十世纪早期著名的女作家。一方面,凯瑟表达了对城市工业化对人们精神的侵蚀的厌恶和对清教功利主义的批判,并藐视清教伦理观,打破了它对作品中女性的禁锢。另一方面,凯瑟通过描写迷人的西部,塑造独立勇敢的拓荒者来歌颂清教理想主义,并希望这种精神得到继承,并发扬光大。 Vera Cather is a famous American writer in the early twentieth century. On the one hand, Cather expresses his dislike of the erosion of people’s spirit by the industrialization of cities and its criticism of Puritan utilitarianism, contempt for the ethics of Puritanism and breaking the confinement of women in her works. On the other hand, Kaiser sang Puritan idealism by describing the fascinating West and building an independent and courageous pioneer, and hoped that such spirit would be inherited and flourished.