在《金瓶梅》小说中，家庭的不幸使潘金莲过早地失去父爱与母爱，病态的社会剥夺了她的人身自由。如此残酷的现实扭曲了她正常的心理，痛苦与绝望将她推向沉沦，这就使她表现出一系列不典型、非常态、不为社会文化所期待的行为反应——病态、变态的行为。然而，潘金莲的变态是由病态的社会所致，她爱美的天性、觉醒的人身价值观念以及她对人生理想的追求本都是无可厚非的。可是，一旦这些本无善恶、对错色彩的内部因素进入那个万恶的社会熔炉中，就会被迫以错误的形式表现出来。也就是说，在那个龌龊的社会，潘金莲就是为了活着，为了活得更好一点，被迫做出了种种变态行为，并且在长期的变态生活中，她的道德观念逐渐淡化，甚至大大地超越正常人格，表征出一种变态人格，成为一个缺乏道德自觉和精神超越能力而完全沉溺在个人欲望之中的人，形成了她的人生悲剧。

In Jin Ping Mei, misfortune of family made Pan Jinlian prematurely lose fathering and mothering ，sick society deprived of her personal freedom. Such cruel reality distorted her normal psychology, pain and despair pushed her into the sink, which made her show a series of atypical, abnormal socio-cultural behavioral responses which was not looked forward for -sick, psychopathic behavior. However, Pan's metamorphosis was caused by the sick society, her love of beauty, wakeful personal values and her pursuit of ideal is understandable. However, once these internal factors which were no good and evil, right or wrong came into the social melting pot, they would be forced to be expressed in a wrong way. That is to say, in that sordid social, just because Pan wanted to live, to live better, she was forced to make all kinds of metamorphic behaviors, what was more, in the long-term psychopathic life, her moral values gradually fade, her personality even greatly beyond the normal one , characterized a metamorphic personality, she became a person who was lack of moral consciousness and spiritual transcendence ability and completely indulged in the personal desires, all above formed her tragic life.