多丽丝·莱辛的短篇小说《去十九号房》真实地反映了知识女性在社会生活中面临的困境,体现了理智与本能的强烈冲突。小说的悲剧在于主人公苏珊为了寻找真实的自我,而变得疯癫,最后走上了一条自我毁灭的道路。本文试图探讨追寻与疯癫这两个女性文学传统在这部短篇小说中的体现,并揭示主人公在现代社会的精神世界中自我迷失、自我寻找及最终崩溃的实质。 Doris Lessing’s short story “Going to Room 19” truly reflects the predicament that intellectual women face in their social life and embodies a strong conflict between reason and instinct. The tragedy of the novel is that the protagonist Susan becomes insane in search of true self and finally embarks on a path of self-destruction. This article attempts to explore the pursuit of madness and the two female literary traditions reflected in this short story, and reveals the protagonist in the spiritual world of modern society, self-lost, self-seeking and ultimately the collapse of the essence.