《牡丹花被》和《马小乔的貂》像个姊妹篇,无论从人物、结构、立意、叙事还是情调上都有相似之处,大约可以体现作者一个时期里的兴奋点,一种意犹未尽的表达欲望。两篇的主角都是处于社会底层的女人,写她们捉襟见肘的生存状态和一点可怜的希冀。金鹊是个农村来的小时工,丈夫在工地做粗活。两人隔得不远,可以经常见面,她的希冀是能与丈夫相会时浪漫温存,合盖那床象征美满的牡丹花被。马小乔的工作是刮大白,有时与同学聚会,那时她挂在衣架上的外套是羽绒服,这使 “Peony Flower” and “Ma Xiaolin’s Mink” are like sisters, showing similarities in characters, structures, conceptions, narratives and sentiments, which can roughly reflect the author’s excitement in a period of time and an expression of endless conviction desire. The two protagonists are the women in the bottom of society, writing about their stretched living conditions and a bit of poor hope. Magpie is an hour-timer from the countryside, her husband doing rough work in the site. The two are not far from each other and can meet frequently. Her hope is to be able to meet with her husband, romantic, and cover the perfect symbol of peony flowers that bed. Ma Xiaocao’s work is shaved white, and sometimes with her classmates, when she was hanging on the coat hanger is down jacket, which makes