美国女作家薇拉·凯瑟的中篇小说《一个迷途的女人》是描写拓荒英雄丹尼尔·福瑞斯特上尉的妻子玛丽恩,在社会变革中不能坚守传统美德而走向迷途的故事。男性对女性的压制并不是作品的主题。当我们用另外一种视角来研读她的文本时,发现这部作品依然放射出灿烂的光彩。从女性主义角度来分析女主人公玛丽恩,可以发现她之所以走向迷途是由于受到父权文化的压制。 American novelist Vera Cather’s novella, “A Lost Woman,” is a story about Captain Marion, the captain of the pioneering hero Daniel Frist, who has failed to stick to the traditional virtues during social changes. Male suppression of women is not the theme of the work. When we read her text in another perspective, we found that the work still radiates a brilliant light. Analysis of the heroine Marion from the feminist point of view, we can find that she was lost due to the suppression of patriarchal culture.