【正文】 is novel, Jane Austen’s marriage attitude is that marriage should not be built on money and wealth, but on mutual understanding in spirit. At last, Elizabeth discards his prejudice against Darcy. And Darcy overes his pride. They both find their true love and have a happy marriage. After experiencing ups and downs, the true lovers, Elizabeth’s sister Jane and Charles Bingley also get united happily. There are also some minor characters that all marry for the wrong reasons。 Charlotte for status, Lydia for sex and Mrs. Hirst for money. But the Bennett sisters are manipulated by Austen to marry for the only thing worth marrying for—love.Both happy marriages and unhappy ones contribute to the theme that a happy and strong marriage takes time to build and must be based on mutual feeling, understanding, and respect. Hasty marriages acting on impulse, and based on superficial qualities will not survive and will inevitably lead to unhappiness.3. General View of The Man That Corrupted Hadleyburg An omniscient narrator opens the story with a description of Hadleyburg. It is the most honest town in the state. The citizens there are very proud of its honest, upright, reputation. The town enjoys national renown for protecting every citizen against all temptation from infancy through death. And the town motto even reads Lead us not into temptation.39。39。(Xian Yijing，2001) But the residents of Hadleyburg see their virtues tested when a sack of gold worth﹩40,000 arrives. The sack of gold with a note attaching on it is delivered by a stranger. The notes say that it is repaying for a loan of 20 dollars from the town. And the gold will be the Hadleyburg citizen who once helped a poor stranger passing through a town. Whoever can write down the exact words uttered to that poor stranger wins the sack of gold. The temptation proves too great for most Hadleyburgers. With the temptation of the sack of gold, none of the “honest upright residents, especially the nineteen prominent residents, can resist the temptation. In order to strive to be the winner of the bag, they are ignorant of their conscience to deceive and fabricate evidences. A series of farces are put on, leading to the notoriety of the “honest”, “upright” Hadleyburg. Stylistic Features in the Man That Corrupted HadleyburgIn this novel the hypocrisy of bourgeois soul is the target of satires. But we cannot see simple and clear words on the criticism and verbal abuse in the whole text. The author with ironical strokes, exaggerated way to describe and tease those figures that cannot be more foolish and consider money as important as life. The inner world of characters can be exposed more deeply in this way. Mark Twain39。s ironic way, both humorous and spicy, makes readers cannot help laughing. When getting pleasure in the laughter they get more disgusted about those ugly souls. Irony often cannot be separated from exaggeration, because exaggeration can enhance the artistic effect. At this point, ironic novels and ic books are similar to each other. But the exaggeration must be rooted in the life, or else it will be art without life. Let us look at how Mark Twain makes use irony in the novel. The stranger named Stevenson wrote a letter to Richards saying that, the dead Goodson was his benefactor, who was also the lawful owner of the sack. Mr. Richards once has helped Goodson, so he would like to give this sack of gold to Mr. Richards to express his gratitude. Thus this sack of gold belongs to Richards with no choice. Immediately, Richards’ imagination like the windmill turns up quickly. He thought hard and contemplated seriously what kind of thing he had done for Goodson. For a moment, he thought once he volunteered to persuade Goodson to convert to save his soul, but he also recalled that Goodson told him to “go to thunder and mind his own business.” “He wasn’t hankering to follow Hadley burg to heaven.”(Xian Yijing，2001) Then, he may save Goodson in water but he is suddenly reminded that he simply could not swim. His help also became ridiculous. Later, his fantasy went to a worthwhile thing to show that he really helped Goodson. After it he could sleep peacefully. This shamelessly selfdeceiving illusion was obviously exaggerated, but it corresponded with People39。s thinking and real life, so it is credible. Richards clearly did not help Goodson, but he eagerly wanted to find even fabricate socalled foundation to prove that he indeed gave grace to Goodson. Mark Twain described those ridiculous and detestable figures vividly. Meaning of the Man That Corrupted HadleyburgIn The Man That Corrupted Hadleyburg, the author exposes the bourgeois’ hypocrisy and greediness incisively and vividly. The darkness of capitalist society and the shameless and greediness of bourgeois is in contrast with their superficial gentleness and moral integrity. This sharp contrast exposes their hypocrisy more deeply. The nineteen prominent residents and their wives represent the ruling class. On the surface, they are honest, upright and generous. But before gold, they all show their desire for money, greedy, shameless and cheating with each other. The most prestigious residents of the nineteen prominent residents, Mrs. Richards, lays bare the truth with one remark. “it is artificial honesty, and weak as water when temptation es,… It is a mean town, a hard , stingy town…”(Xian Yijing，2001)Here, Mark Twain’s humor is very natural. The satire naturally permeates into the lines. In fact, the most possible person who really helps the stranger may be Goodson. He has already been dead at the beginning of the story. And he is hated by the residents because he is only person who tells the truth about the town. Until his death, he “said it right out publicly….. The village was honest, narrow, selfrighteous, and stingy.” (Xian Yijing，2001)The author deliberately reverses beauty and ugliness , uprightness and hypocrisy. As for the nineteen prominent residents, the author’ purpose i