在当代中国文坛上,新写实主义作家池莉以一部《烦恼人生》开始的她的“烦恼生涯”。在她的作品中始终如一的就是对小市民的观注,本文就是以她的第一部长篇小说《水与火的缠绵》的主人公曾茫茫为对象,通过对曾茫茫18年人生经历及其人物形象的分析,使我们了解到当代女性、或暂时处于弱势的人们,在面对这个急剧变化的复杂社会时,表现出了一种怎样的心态,以及应以怎样的态度去迎接生活中的坎坎坷坷,而我们这些“局外人”又能从曾茫茫的坎坷经历中得到什么启示呢? In the contemporary Chinese literary world, the neo-realist writer Chi Li started her career as a “troubled life.” In her works, Consistency is always the view of the small citizen. This article is based on her expanse of the protagonist “the touching of water and fire” in her first novel. Through the study of the 18 years of life experience and her characters The image analysis shows us what kind of mentality contemporary women, or temporarily disadvantaged people, are facing in this rapidly changing and complex society and what attitude should be adopted to meet the hurdles in life Rough bumpy, and we these “outsider” What can be enlightened from the rough experience?