Women's Marriage Dilemma And Self-salvation

American author Henry James (1843-1916) is a world-famous "cosmopolitanism" writer. In his fifty years of creative career, from the first piece of work Watch and Ward, Roderick Hudson to his final unfinished manuscript Ivory Tower, including all kinds of different literary genres, such as fiction, reviews, travelogues, biographies, plays and so on. Almost all of them attracted the attention of internationally critics. Receiving a huge honor, which made him, was called the American modernist fiction pioneer. As a cultural marginal man who used to across the Eurasican continent. James wrote lots of novels which were famous for their international theme. This is the most important separate faction of his novels, and in China, the researches about Henry James focused on this point in his long novels. In China, the history of the research about Henry James is quite short stories is inadequate, few people concerned about the marriage dilemmas and identity crisis in his early short stories. Therefore, our researches about Henry James are far from rich, there are many blind spots to be filled, and there is a great potential for development and research.With the goal of doing researches about the marriage trouble and self-redemption of women in James' early short novels, providing a new perspective for the researches of James' short stories with "identity" as this article's entry point, enriching the present research. In this paper, I choose Daisy Miller, Washington Square, Madame de Mauves as the objects, on the basis of analyzing the texts, combining the social relationship between Europe and America, using sociology, cultural studies and other theories, in order to getting the systematic and comprehensive studies of the marriage troubles and cultural sublimation in James' early short stories.The first part of the preface is about introducing the author and his works; second, it is about the researches of his short stories. The researches about James at home and abroad in the third. Finally, it is about the practical significance and value of this topic.The first chapter is divided into three sections, is mainly a general analysis of the three types of marriages. On the way of looking for the culture, love and aristocratic failure in the social relationship, the different failures and the burst of their dreams the people are forced to face. According to the social exchange theories, coming to the result that the marriage troubles existing in James' early short stories are necessary. This necessity has individuals, and is also the total of the two different cultures.The second chapter is divided into three sections, focuses on the main contents of these three novels to explode the identity crisis which is hidden behind the "marriage relationship" which created by Henry James. The first part is about to explain the cultural identity crisis with the example of Daisy Miller who is an American, she was refused when she looked for the high European culture and then she was destructed. The second is about the identity crisis between two different genders. It tells us a story of Catherine who was forced to the challenge of money and then lives alone for her later years. And the last part is about the class identity crisis by Madame de Mauves who experienced the burst of noble dreams.The third chapter is still divided into three sections; mainly focus on the heroines in James' novels how to make the self-saving in self-selection when they were in marriage trouble in social relationship. The first part is about the reflective of the exotic cultural who was affected by the death of Daisy Milller. Catherine accessed to man's recognition because of her single made the men aware of the independence and self-esteem of women in the second part. Last, Madame de Mauves won the dignity and re-defined of personality for her constancy, for what she also gained the respect of friend and her husband's confession.The last chapter is divided into two sections. On the based of the first three chapters, summing up the cultural metaphor behind the marriage troubles and self-saving in James 'novels. The first part mainly performed the cultural core which is covered by the skin of marriage. The second one mainly focuses on the cultural sublimation of self-saving.Conclusion is a full summary of the whole paper, then discussing the popularity of marriage dilemmas and identity crisis in today's society and the cultural significance behind them.