多丽丝·莱辛是最受亲睐的英国当代作家之一,并获2007年诺贝尔文学奖。她的第一部小说《青草在歌唱》揭示了男权社会下貌似自由的当代女性的生存困境,而殖民主义背景使他们的生活更为难堪。本文追溯了主人公玛丽一生为了发现自我、需求独立所做的徒劳的努力,从而揭示了当时妇女被男权束缚无法自立的悲惨处境。 Doris Lessing is one of the most popular British contemporary writers and won the 2007 Nobel Prize for Literature. Her first novel, The Grass Is Singing, reveals the dilemma of contemporary seemingly free women in the patriarchal society, which is embarrassed by the colonialist background. This article traces the heroic efforts made by Mary in her lifetime to find oneself and demand independence, thus revealing the tragic situation in which women were restrained by patriarchal power at that time.