Although her mother was born in a famous family and was a new woman deeply influenced by the May 4th New Culture Movement, she still could not escape the fate of arranged marriage. And her father is the image of a feudal widow. The changes of the times and the decline of the family did not pull him into the torrent of modern society. Instead, I let myself fall: concubinage, smoking opium, and living in a decadent feudal widow world forever. "What Zhang Ailing sees from her mother is more the helplessness and sadness of China women sandwiched between the old and the new times." It is precisely because she saw through the tragic fate of women living under the pressure of feudal society and patriarchal culture that she created vivid female images in her works. The women in Zhang Ailing's novels are pitiful, selfish and pathetic. She showed us the tragedy of one woman after another in a cold style. For the women in her works, she not only gave sympathy and pity, but also exposed and criticized them. Love in the City and The Golden Lock are the representative works of Zhang Ailing. These two works seem to have nothing to do with each other, and different people are telling different stories. But after in-depth analysis, we found that in these different stories, the same thing showed us the tragedy of women. Bai Liusu, the heroine of Love in a Fallen City, is a young lady from an old family. She received a western education. After being abused by her husband, she even divorced her black sheep husband, which can also be called a new woman. However, after the divorce, she did not feel any warmth and comfort from her family. After searching her property, her brother and sister-in-law couldn't wait to drive her back to her husband's house. The sarcastic and abusive words stimulated Tasso, and there was no place for her family. "This house can live! ..... I can't live any longer! " But it is difficult for a woman like her to live independently. So Mrs. Xu's sentence: "Finding a job is all fake, but finding someone is still true." The love of the whole city has brought tassel back to her old way, that is, to find a man to marry, which is her only way to survive. By chance, she met Fan Liuyuan. This man is her new hope and the only way for her to escape from her family. After all, what she values most is his wealth and status, so she desperately wants to catch this man and make herself financially safe. She wants to be her wife on her own initiative, instead of treating her like he treated the women at the carnival. However, she failed. Fan Liuyuan is a person beyond her control. She doesn't understand him. She only realized that "he wants her, but he doesn't want to take her away." In the duel between the sexes, she was defeated, but she couldn't let go, leaving only the way out to be a mistress of Fan Liuyuan. Fortunately or unfortunately, a war broke out in Hong Kong, and the sudden war brought the couple back to the most ordinary people. They hit it off, realized Bai Liusu's dream, and finally married Fan Liuyuan. In this seemingly happy ending, there is endless desolation and despair behind it. The perfection of tassels comes at the cost of the destruction of the whole city. "The fall of Hong Kong helped her. ..... Maybe just because she fulfilled it, a metropolis was subverted. " But "the baptism of the Hong Kong campaign did not transform her into a revolutionary woman. The battle of Hong Kong affected Fan Liuyuan, let him live a normal life and finally got married, but marriage did not make him a saint and completely gave up his old habits and style. " (2) Their ending is still vulgar, and tassel's married life is also predictable. Cao in The Golden Lock is an out-and-out tragic female image in a patriarchal society. Under the persecution of patriarchy, Cao's soul was extremely distorted, and Zhang Ailing showed her madness, ugliness and abnormality with a sharp pen. Cao Yuan was the daughter of the owner of the sesame oil shop in the countryside. Although she was born in poverty, she is also naive and beautiful, longing for pure love and someone she likes. However, in the patriarchal society, her brother sold her to the second young master of the Jiang family for money. From then on, she locked her favorite butcher shop in her heart. Marrying a disabled young master who has been suffering from rickets since childhood is bound to suppress her erotic life. In this abnormal relationship, she has never enjoyed extraordinary rights and happiness. Not satisfied with her husband's lust, she turned to her brother-in-law's third young master, Ji Ze. She longed for a normal sexual life, but her love was never reciprocated. After Mrs. Jiang "righted herself", she turned all her passions into a desire for money. She insists that money is everything to her. After the separation, this dependence on money intensified. This is what she bought with the happiness of her life. She has a strong possessive desire for money and becomes a slave to it. However, her love and desire were permanently suppressed, which led to the distortion of her soul and she began to become crazy and vicious. In order to keep her property, she did not hesitate to destroy her children's marriage and love. She killed two daughters-in-law and ruined her daughter's happiness. "She is not only a victim of the patriarchal society, but also a schemer of the patriarchal society, and a manifestation of the ugliness of human nature." "For thirty years, she has been carrying a gold cangue. She killed several people with that heavy flail horn, and those who didn't die also lost half their lives. " ("The Golden Lock") and Cao are good families and simple country girls; A woman with western education can be called a new type of woman, a beautiful girl who once yearned for pure love. The two images seem to be different, but they are branded with a deep sense of female slavery in their bones. They are both victims in a patriarchal society and accessories of men. They are always enslaved and oppressed, and their economic independence directly leads to their personality independence. This is the root of their tragedy. In the patriarchal society, their tragedy is mainly manifested as: 1. The loss of family ties. Bai Liusu's brother and sister-in-law couldn't wait to kick her out after robbing her of her money. Fourth Daughter-in-law stood behind Third Master and said with a smile,' Your own flesh and blood shouldn't mention money. It's a long story! I told our fourth brother earlier-I said, fourth brother, you advise third brother not to use grandma Liu's money to make gold and stocks, which is unlucky! As soon as she married her in-laws, her husband became the black sheep. When I returned to my mother's house, I saw that my mother's house was going to be destroyed-a born jinx! Third Master came and said,' Fourth Grandma is right. At that time, if we hadn't let her take a stake, we wouldn't have been defeated! "(Love in a Fallen City) shows that when Bai Liusu ran out of money, her brother and sister-in-law hated her guts. Between them, the brotherhood has long faded, and the only thing that ties them together is money. Cao's brother married her to Jiang's disabled second son for money, regardless of whether his sister would be happy or not. After personally pushing my sister into the fire pit, I have to go to Jiang's house to collect money in the name of care and visit. "Cao Danian said:' Sister, listen to me. Don't say that you are not feeling well now. It's best to have family walking around, which means you have a bright future. The Chiang family is a big family. The elders always crush people with big hats, and the younger generation is like a wolf. Which is easy to handle? I need an assistant to make plans for you. You will need your brother and nephew very much in the future. Seven Qiao spat:' I rely on your help, I'm in trouble! I've seen through you-I can beat them. You came to me for credit and money, but I couldn't beat them. You fell over there. People who have seen the official have lost their souls, and it is not too late to die when their heads shrink. ""(The Golden Lock) Between them, there is no longer a simple brother-sister relationship, but also money and interests. Second, the disillusionment of love Fan Liuyuan may really like it, but he knows that he doesn't really love him. What she values is his money and status, not really knowing him. So "he wants her, but he doesn't want to marry her." If it weren't for this war, Bai Liusu's final outcome would only be Fan Liuyuan's mistress. The abnormal husband and wife life has always suppressed Cao's normal human instinct. So she fell in love with her healthy and romantic brother-in-law, Jiang Jize. She has been pestering him for more than ten years, and she knows that it is impossible to get his heart. But her heart trembled when she heard Jiang Jize's similar confession of love. "Seven splints bowed their heads, bathed in the brilliance, and listened to music and joy carefully ..." (Golden Lock) Yes, she loved him because she loved him. When she knew that he lied to him for money, she was even more angry. But after driving him away, she began to regret it again. "Today is entirely her fault. He is not a good person, and she is not ignorant. If she wants him, she has to be stupid and tolerate his bad. " Her exposure shattered her "love". Third, the survival dilemma In this society, women have no social status and independent personality. They may just want to live a stable life, but it is difficult to achieve it. In order to survive, they can only rely on men. Bai Liusu believes: "A woman, no matter how good, can't get the love of the opposite sex or the respect of the same sex." (Love in a Fallen City) And Cao, though married to a disabled young master, was reluctant and unhappy, she insisted on staying in the Chiang family. She relied on the birthright and position he gave her to compete for property. "Women ... women talk about men all their lives, miss men and always complain about men." This is enough to show that men are their only way out. They can't live without it, let alone leave. Qiao Qi attached great importance to her property, but she still clung to her son Changbai, because he was the only man in her life, and she couldn't let him go, let alone let other women take him away. Fourth, the selfish nature of Bai Liusu for their own selfish desires, in order to get a man, she single-handedly destroyed the sisterhood between her and Seven Sisters, and for the sake of her survival, regardless of sisterhood, she devoted herself to Fan Liuyuan. "Paul must be cursing her in his heart, and at the same time he is impressed and awed." Fringe favors boys over girls. For the sake of his greedy nature, Cao can break up his son and daughter-in-law and destroy her daughter's love regardless of the love between mother and son, just to keep her property and her "man". After dividing the property, Cao became a vicious witch and a dark mother. "After she obtained parental authority, her abnormal psychology was irresistibly combined with her' revenge'." She needs others to pay something for her sacrifice, whether it is her own flesh or blood, as long as it can compensate her abnormal psychology. Changbai is not only a son, but also the only "man" in her life. But when her son gets married, she doesn't belong to her alone. She needs to share her son with another woman. She won't allow it. She tried her best to provoke their husband and wife's life and speak ill of her daughter-in-law, which led to her painful death. For the sake of her daughter Chang 'an, she deliberately destroyed love and gave her opium for fear that outsiders would cheat her of her property. V slave consciousness and original sin consciousness. Half of their tragic fate comes from the outside world-being bullied and oppressed by male chauvinism, and the other half comes from themselves. Their bones are branded with a deep sense of female slavery and original sin, which is influenced by thousands of years of feudal male chauvinism. This kind of consciousness got them into trouble and couldn't get out. They themselves think that they are inferior to men in any respect, so they can only live by men. Cao's final result was betrayal. She knew that everyone around her hated her. Bai Liusu and Fan Liuyuan finally got married, but Fan Liuyuan will never become a saint, nor can she give up her previous life and style. Who knows if Bai Liusu will become the second Cao Qiao Qi? "Thirty years ago, the moon had sunk, and thirty years ago, people died. However, the story of thirty years ago is not over-it can't be over.