美国当代小说家厄普代克以描写美国中产阶级而闻名,但是他作品中的众多女性也值得探讨,这些女性形象很多都负面形象,无论来自哪个阶层,没有一个具有良好的行为或道德责任感。这些女性形象体现了作家对女性的主观曲解,但是在另一方面作家又对此非常清楚,对女性是充满同情的。本文以《走向末日》为例,分析了厄普代克的女性观。一、引言20世纪60、70年代,随着美国女权运动风起云涌的发展,各种探讨女性意识、女权主义问题的 Updike, a contemporary American novelist, is famous for describing the middle class in the United States. However, many women in his work are also worth discussing. Many of these female images have negative images. No matter from which class, no one has a good sense of behavior or moral responsibility. These female images embody the writer’s subjective misinterpretation of women, but on the other hand, the writer is very clear about this and sympathetic to women. In this paper, “Toward the End” as an example, the analysis of Updike’s view of women. I. INTRODUCTION In the 1960s and 1970s, with the surging development of the feminist movement in the United States, various issues concerning feminist awareness and feminism