| Doris Lessing is one of the most famous writers in the contemporary world literature. The Golden Notebook, is considered as her representative work in contemporary British literary, and now it is translated into many languages. The novel is very meaty with unique representation, which plays an important role in Britain and the United States Literary circles. In 2007, Doris Lessing was awarded the Nobel Prize for literature.The Golden Notebook is composed of one independent story and five notebooks, with no chapters for the whole novel. The notebooks of four different colors—black, red, yellow, and blue, stand for four different aspects of the protagonist "free woman" Anna's life, including professional life, political life, emotional life, and psychological life. Four different roles in real life bring a lot of confusion to Anna, because four roles in her life could not be standardized, which makes her personality split. Four notebooks are the mental course of Anna's getting rid of the split personality, while the last golden notebook is a conclusion of Anna's life experience. The disorder of content and structure reflects the unique thinking of Lessing, and shows the inclusiveness of the novel.The thesis contains 7 chapters. The first chapter introduces Doris Lessing's life experience and her works. The second chapter indicates the feminist theory and its influence on Lessing. Chapter Three depicts the black notebook which records "free woman" Anna's professional life. Chapter Four analyses the red notebook which stands for "free woman" Anna's political life. Chapter Five introduces the yellow notebook which represents "free woman" Anna's emotional life. Chapter Six describes the blue notebook which indicates "free woman" Anna's psychological life. In conclusion, feminism can't help women gain the real freedom, the absolute "Free Woman" doesn't exist in the world, talking about the men without women is meaningless.
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