美籍华裔作家哈金(Ha Jin)在他1999年出版的小说《等待》(Waiting)中,围绕三个主人公讲述了一段关于等待的故事。在等待18年后丈夫终于和妻子离婚,与身为同事并苦等自己18年的女友结婚,但愿望虽终于达成,这位军医却没有迎来幸福结局。本文通过对小说中不同成长背景下的两位女性的人物性格分析,来展示那个时代女性的命运与社会现实之间的深刻关系。 Ha Jin, a Chinese-American writer, tells a story of waiting around the three protagonists in his 1999 novel Waiting. After waiting for 18 years, her husband finally divorced his wife and married his girlfriend, who was himself a painter for 18 years, but his wish was finally reached. However, the medic did not welcome the happy ending. By analyzing the personalities of two women in different novels, this article shows the profound relationship between the fate of women and the social reality of that era.