Drabble gives her interpretation for the relationship between art and reality in this novel and it shows us her realistic way of writing she has always appreciated. 德拉布爾在該部作品中以藝術(shù)的想象力給藝術(shù)與現實(shí)的關(guān)系作了一個(gè)很好的詮釋?zhuān)搀w現出她一貫堅持的現實(shí)主義創(chuàng )作觀(guān)。