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ions” is the code of conduct and criteria to adjust the relationship between family members, and it is the component of social ethics and morals.

In family ethical relations, husband and wife relation is the most important relation, which is also the foundation of other family ethical relations. In family, parents have definite ethic identity, and they need to shoulder corresponding ethic responsibility. The husband and wife’s deviation to the identity and responsibility will become crux of family discord in the future. The apathy of husband and wife’s relations will ruin the original family order, and their deviation to the own ethic identity will contribute to the inharmonious family environment and has an irreversible effect on their children. Followed is the love of the parents and children, that kind of love is more prominent. Children are the continuation of life of their parents, often they are the fusion agents of husband and wife relationship. Parents always treat their children as a part of themselves, children is like products created by parents, therefore love given by parents are often more than that from Children to their parents. Because of the existence of blood relationship, parents give their children life, raise them, children also love their own parents back. (Litian Miao, 2009: 5-6) In the family, in addition to husband and wife, parents and children, the closest relationship is the relationship between the brothers and sisters. Brothers and sisters’ love affects the thoughts and actions of brothers and sisters, coordinating the ethical relationship between brothers and sisters. Love and peace relationship, and mutual assistance between them are highly praised by any family ethics and any society, also abandon brothers and sisters is held in contempt by family ethics. (Xiangming Liang, 2007: 37-44)

In The Bulwark, story revolves around the Barnes. Hannah and Rufus Barnes, both Quakers, move out of Maine to Trenton, New Jersey, where Hannah's widowed sister lives. Their son Solon, the protagonist, meets Benecia Wallin; although she is affluent and he is not, they get married. Solon works in a bank in Philadelphia, where his Quaker values are contrary to financial ethos. He summons a bank examiner from Washington DC to stop the corrupt practices of some chief executives. Eventually, he resigns. Meanwhile, two of his offspring, Etta and Stewart, repudiate their Quaker upbringing. While Orville gets married and Isobel works in a college, Etta moves to Wisconsin and then Greenwich Village under the influence of one of her friends, Volida La Porte. She has an affair with a painter, until he decides to go West to further his career. Moreover, Stewart accidentally kills one of his dates and commits suicide shortly after. Eventually, Benecia dies upon Etta's return; Solon dies of cancer as Etta watches over him. During the Barnes’ stories, husband and wife relation, parents and children relation, sisters and brothers’ relation are discussed in depth. From the alienation of spousal relations and inter-generational relations as well as compatriot relations in The Bulwark, Dreiser also reflected on how to establish and maintain the family ethical relations. The husband and wife should get well along with each other, and should not ignore the ethics for their self-interests. The husband and wife need shoulder the responsibilities and obligations to educate their children. A complete family and