Miserable Idealism:Study Of The Fathership Image In Zhang Jie’Novels

One’s childhood helps shape his personalities. As to a writer,the memory of childhood life plays an important role in writing creation. The writer Zhang Jie’s experience of her childhood, whose father was absent while she was growing up, made her perception of her father only come from imaginations. While the real life couldn’t give her such an idealistic father, writing offered her the space of literary imagination. Zhang Jie’s psychic trauma of having no father in her life, failing in marriage in her mid-age, sticking with her mother only for a long term made her long for a father-type idealistic man’s showing up in her life to save her from the weak and helpless life. Through analyses in three different kinds of male images, which came from a daughter’s literary imagination towards her father, the author respectively generalized these three types as "Incarnation of the Real, the Good and the Beautiful", "Presence of the Absentee", and "Complicated Polyhedron". From her works we can see, on one side, she shaped a model of an idealistic man, while on the other side, Zhang Jie belittled all men with no doubt. Actually, in Zhang Jie’s works, her different kinds of attitudes towards man reflected the processing of her acknowledge to father from fancy to disillusion. However, whatever attitude the writer took, good or bad, positive or passive, which could be paradox, what can be sure of is that it shows the author’s gradual mature and stability of her female standpoint. A series of father characters in her works, like Bai Fushan, who was an ugly and hypocritical coward, is not only author’s inner complex expression of emotional changes to father from love, hatred to inspection, but also her deep reflection of traditional fathership and awareness of female’s self-consciousness.