本文追溯家庭私有領域中看似「無政治」的政治主宰關係，並指出莎莉的「去政治化」，她被貶低為帕梅拉的替身與黑暗面，並且從美德與私有領域形成的政治角力中永遠被排除，此再現為政治表述。莎莉是帕梅拉的鬼魅，其墮落的故事是小說的次文本，在小說結構佔有重要地位。莎莉墮落的故事使得小說的性別政治得以運作，她的故事帶著性別意涵，更是帕梅拉文本寫作的物質基礎。若說帕梅拉透過她的筆，而獲得了中產階級自我定義與自我生產的地位提升，那麼莎莉的故事及身體則成為帕梅拉文本生產的物質基礎。莎莉性別的身體標誌著女性私有家庭的界線與侷限。私有家庭透過生產某種特定的社會身體才能彰顯意識型態的效力。莎莉的故事是小說的「外在性組成」，訴說著小說性別與身體的再現政治。

This paper presents the traces of “depoliticization” of Sally Godfrey, her reduction to Pamela’s double and her exclusion from the political, as a political gesture par excellence. Sally Godfrey is Pamela’s specter; her story is a subtext and a material foundation that carries with it sexual implications. She occupies a crucial structural position necessary for the novel’s gender politics to work. If Pamela acquires the privilege of self-definition and self-production through her pen, then Sally Godfrey’s story draws attention to the way in which her body marks the boundary of materiality in Pamela’s textual practice. Sally’s body marks the limits of Pamela’s domesticity which has ideological effects through the production of a socially specific body. Sally Godfrey is this “constitutive outside” that continues to remind readers of the representational politics in Pamela.