作为20世纪英国最为重要的现代主义作家之一,曼斯菲尔德对象征手法十分重视,她将象征手法称为“面具法”(mask),主张将象征潜藏在文字之中。她曾这样对默里说:“当你写作的时候,不要将你的面具掀开,除非,在这被掀开的面具下你还藏着另一张面具,你想怎么写都可以,但不要轻易掀开面具。” As one of the most important modernist writers in Britain in the 20th century, Mansfield attached great importance to the practice of symbolism. She referred to the symbolic technique as the mask of “mask,” in which he advocated putting the symbol in the text. She once said to Murray: “When you write, do not lift your mask unless unless you have another mask hidden under the opened mask, But do not open the mask easily. ”