玛丽·埃莉诺·威尔金斯·弗里曼是十九世纪末二十世纪初美国著名乡土文学作家,其代表作《新英格兰修女》用纪实手法和怜悯情怀,生动刻画了露易莎坚持独身,不受父权世界钳制的心理历程。弗里曼将象征艺术手法运用得淋漓尽致,女性思想觉醒就是要走出婚姻的牢笼,奋起反抗并寻求自我。从象征主义角度对小说抽丝剥茧,字里行间弗里曼创作手法的匠心独运。 Mary Eleanor Wilkins Freeman is a famous American native literature writer in the late nineteenth and early twentieth centuries. His masterpiece The Sisters of New England used deeds and mercy to vividly portray Lucy’s insistence on celibacy , From the psychological history of the patriarchal world. Freeman will be the most vivid use of symbolic techniques, women’s awakening of ideas is to go out of the cage of marriage, rise up to resist and seek for themselves. From the point of view of symbolism, the author tries his best to free himself from the novel by means of Freeman’s writing.