小说以珍妮的悲惨遭遇为主要线索，描写了美国大城市中日趋严重的失业和贫困现象，着务刻画了资产阶级上流社会奢侈无度、荒淫糜烂的生活，昭示给人贫富之间不可逾超的鸿沟。一方面，歌颁了劳动人民勤劳、正直和勇于自我牺牲的优秀品质；另一方面，鞭答了物欲横流、金钱万能的社会中的种种罪恶现实。整篇小说构思新颖、精巧，情节安排自然合理、紧凑，毫无人工雕琢之嫌。（The novel deems the misery experience of Jennie as the clue and depicts the worsening unemployment and poverty in large cities in the USA. It focuses on describing the luxurious, dissolute and erosive life in the upper class in the capitalist society, revealing there is the unbridgeable gap between the poor and the rich. On the one hand, it praises the excellent quality of working people featured by dilligence, upright and bravery to make sacrifice. On the other hand, it criticizes the sins in the society such as lust for materials and money worship. The novel has original and compact structure with the plot naturally and rationally made. ）