Motherly Love, Loneliness And Gender Confrontation

is the first saga novel of American woman writer Janet Fitch. Since it was published, this book had continued to rank top among all the bestseller lists for dozens of weeks. The heroine Astrid Magnussen had to live and grow up in different foster families as a result of her mother being arrested. The author reveals an intricate and special growing experience and feelings of a girl for readers. And in the mean time, she also connects various classes and types of women together with the focus Astrid and sets up a complicated and reliable feminine story. As an outstanding popular novel, shows all kinds of problems and mental crisis of woman in the contemporary society. Under the basic frame of "incomplete mother love", this story indicates the feelings experience of heroine. And she seeks for mother love and her own ego as well, the confrontation and harmonization of two sexes male and female, and the loneliness of woman in reality, which reveals the traits of feminine literature in modern times. The adroit combination of many topics in this novel embodies the author's ability to control words and creative vision, which is also an embodiment of the value and charm of this book. This paper makes analysis on the key topics from various feminine characters on the basis of literature critics of feminism, promotes in-depth thoughts of the author for the existential state and psychological puzzlement, and tries to disclose the practical meaning of this bestseller.