Charlotte Perkins Gilman was a utopian feminist during a time when her accomplishments were very rare and exceptional for women. The thesis intends to analyze some feminist ideas from the perspective of feminism, together with the study of historical background of the novel. By comparing different reactions of three female protagonists in My Poor Aunt when they suffer the repression of dominant patriarchal family and the constraint of their own talent, which also reveals that protagonists’ fates in Gilman’s works coincide with the growth of her feminist ideas. Charlotte Perkins Gilman was a utopian feminist during a time when her accomplishments were very rare and exceptional for women. The thesis intends to analyze some feminist ideas from the perspective of feminism, together with the study of historical background of the novel. of three female protagonists in My Poor Aunt when they suffer the repression of dominant patriarchal family and the constraint of their own talent, which also reveals that protagonists’ fates in Gilman’s works coincide with the growth of her feminist ideas.