澳大利亚著名女作家海伦.加纳创作初期致力于塑造女性形象,构建女性的主体地位。而最新的小说《空余的房间》在构建女性主体地位的同时,通过两位老年女性在疾病治疗过程中和与死亡进行的抗争中发生的冲突,探讨女性友谊和女性关怀。论文通过对其早期和末期两部小说的对比研究,分析作家女性主义理念的变化和不同的叙述特色。 Helen Ghana, a famous Australian woman writer, initially devoted himself to shaping the female image and establishing the dominant position of women. The latest novel “spare room”, while building the dominant position of women, explores the friendship and femininity of women through the conflict between the two elderly women in the fight against the disease and their death. Through the comparative study of the two novels of the early and the late period, the thesis analyzes the changes of writers’ feminism and different narrative features.