索绪尔的结构主义是20世纪人文社会科学领域中出现的一种思潮,被应用于文学批评是对其的延伸。结构主义强调二元对立。《白鹌鹑》是美国作家斯坦贝克的女性主义的代表作之一,本文运用二元对立的原理来分析《白鹌鹑》中存在的各种矛盾。 Saussure’s structuralism is a kind of trend of thought in the field of humanities and social sciences in the 20th century. It has been applied to literary criticism as an extension of it. Structuralism emphasizes dualism. “White quail” is one of feminist masterpieces by American writer Steinbeck. This paper uses the principle of binary opposition to analyze the various contradictions existing in “White Quail.”