Appearance Of The Sound

This thesis chooses Margaret Mitchell's Gone with the Wind and Willa Cather's My Antonia as the analyzing object; it makes the exploration on the point of view of the culture and sexual distinction. In gone with the wind and My Antonia, both the writers had broken the traditional feminine literary figure and free herself from the shadow of Eve that attached to Adam in the Garden of Eden. They had successfully portrayed Scarlett and Antonia as two unforgettable feminine images. In willa and Margaret's writing, woman is no longer the evil root, but a kind of symbol American culture and spirit, this means the transition of American culture tradition. In these two novels, the heroine are their lives' masters who strived constantly for self-improvement, they maintained independence and kept the initiative, free and indomitable will with rich personality charm. The author has carried on the eulogy by feminine sound from feminine angle to them.The thesis draws lessons from the correlation theories which the cultural criticism and the female criticize, uses the method of text analysis, it keeps to the point from the cultural logic and the sex writing angle, makes the explanation that presents the image of "the new American female", and explores the women's subversive thought that hide under the Patriarchy at that time. At the same time, it also points out: regardless of being the authoress or the heroine, they have still not gone out the fence of the masculine cultural tradition. The thesis breakthrough formerly limitation of the general analysis to the feminine characters' image in feminine authors' writing, it tries hard to achieve to make the whole understanding of the characters' locating culture and the sexual historical environment.