《公爵夫人和珠宝商》是一篇辛辣的社会讽刺小说。它以简洁明快而极度夸张的漫画笔法,刻画了一个商业暴发户和一个没落女贵族之间既勾心斗角又相互利用、相互依存的关系。她需要他的金钱——物质上的优势;他需要她世袭的社会政治地位——精神上的优势,那是他用富甲天下的钱财所无法取代但可以购得的。在描绘这两个人物时,作者运用了一系列动物和物品的意象——大猪、块菌、大象、骆驼、孔雀、阳伞、雪豹、鸟蛋。她还采用意识流和蒙太奇手法,反复叠印今天的大珠宝商和昔日的穷巷野小子的形象,从而使这篇社会题材小说具有不同于平铺直叙的传统社会小说的独创之处。寥寥数页的一个小故事,仿佛凸现在英国近现代史广阔背景上的一个亮点,浓缩了英国资产阶级和封建贵族之间漫长的争斗和最终的妥协。 The Duchess and Jeweler is a spicy social satirical novel. It concisely and exaggerated comic brushwork depicts the relationship between a commercial upstart and a declining aristocratic and exploitative and mutually dependent and interdependent. She needed his money - a material advantage; he needed her hereditary socio-political status - a spiritual advantage that he could not replace but buy with the wealth of the world. In portraying these two characters, the author uses a series of images of animals and objects - big pigs, truffles, elephants, camels, peacocks, parasols, snow leopards, and bird eggs. She also used the stream of consciousness and montage techniques to overprint the images of today’s big jewelers and former poor boys and girls alike so that this social theme novel has a different originality from the traditional social fiction that is straightforward. A short story of a few pages seems to highlight a bright spot on the broad background of British modern history and condense the long struggle and eventual compromise between the British bourgeoisie and the feudal aristocracy.