【正文】 ese Dictionary, image is “general impression that a person, firm, product, etc gives to the public。 God is male and his most important creation is male. The story stresses the primacy of man and the centrality of his place in the universe, while making it clear that women play a subordinate role. Throughout the Christian period, the story of Eve has provided men with the reason why they should restrain and restrict the social, sexual, religious, political, and economic freedom of women. It has also given men the justification to hold women responsible for all the misfortunes suffered by mankind. All women are like Eve, and their only chance of redemption is to bee a person like the Virgin Mary, another patriarchal fantasy, who represents absolute obedience and purity. The story of Eve and its many misogynistic interpretations have over the centuries defined the image of woman in Western civilization. Weak, subordinate, and obedient these words are the adjectives to describe the traditional image of female. They don’t want to be the representative of these adjectives any more. Under the influences of the male dominated society, females’ status is inhibited and subordinate to men. Therefore, they want to change. The feminist definition of female Since the word “Feminism” appeared first in France in the 1880s, Great Britain in the 1890s, and the United States in 1910, Feminist movement has had more than one hundred years history (Bartkowski, 1989). Females tell their demand through speeches and articles to all over the world and let others hear their voices. “That man over there says that women need to be helped into carriages, and lifted over ditches, and to have the best place everywhere. Nobody ever helps me into carriages, or over mudpuddles, or gives me any best place! And ain39。s childhood poverty was tempered by family unity and intellectual riches (Brook, 1984). She was taught to cultivate an open mind and a social conscience, and to revere nature as God39。 she is similar to her mother, for whom she was named. Meg sometimes tries to alter who she is in order to please other people, a trait that es forth when she allows other girls to dress her up like a rich girl at her friend Annie Moffat’s house. She bees an agreeable housewife, pretending to like politics because her husband does, and forgoing luxury because her husband is poor.The four March sisters have totally different character, but they have something in mon: warmhearted, selfrestrained, independent, optimistic, and adoring family. Even though in that era when women were considered that their responsibilities were to serve their children and husbands in their entire lives, and women’s status was much lower than men, the March sisters worked hard and use these action to prove their selfvalues. They longed for work that they must do, as they wanted to keep their social obligation.There are both advantages and disadvantages in the four girls. However, they have been selfrestrained successfully.Being daughter, being sister, being wife, and being mother all these identities are the roles they play in lives. As a daughterSince the civil war broke out and Mr. March joins the army, the circumstance of the March family has gone downhill more and more. They have to adapt themselves to a new life, which is a hard one for them.Due to the family39。s society, the March girls are flawed and vulnerable. The author dared to give her characters faults such as selfishness, vanity, and temper, and bashfulness qualities never seen before in such young characters. Little Women represents the females’ images of being independent, being selfrespected, being selfrestrained, being loved and unselfish, which are build up in the hard time. These images break free from these constraints and walk the way to nature their individuality, which are such graceful and precious things that are worth learning and keeping, if they acquire equality with male. Only through buildingup these female images, the beauty of female will bloom as flowers.ReferencesAlcott, Louisa May. Little Women. Xi’an: World Books Press, 2005.Bartkowski, France. Feminist Utopias. London: University of Nebraska Press, 1989.Brook, Sarah. A Hunger for Home: Louisa May Aclott and Little Women. Philadelphin: Temple Press, 1984.Bush, Cristal. Nineties Knowledge: All You Need to Know to Understand Modern Life and Thought. Beijing: The World Books Press Company, 1996.Chapman, Robert. Economic Independence for Women: The Foundation of Equal Rights. London: Sage Publications, 1976.Ednah, Cheney. Louisa May Alcott: Her life, Letters, and Journals. Boston: Roberts Brothers, 1889.Truth, Sojourner. Ain’ t I a Woman. Akron: Warner Press, 1851.:《傲慢與偏見》與《小婦人》(哲學社會科學版) 第26卷第2期，2004: 122124.. Smith, Jason. The Story of Adam and Eve., 200182.. White, Kate. Women and Jobs., 2005221.. Hall, Anne. Women Prefer Working outside the Home., 200796.18