西尔维亚·普拉斯在小说《钟形罩》中塑造了一位才华横溢却在成长过程中饱受身份困惑的青年女性形象。女主人公埃斯特苦苦挣扎于各种对立的女性身份当中,直至最后精神崩溃。从女性主义批评视角解读埃斯特的悲剧性结局的成因,旨在揭示青年女性的社会角色危机,进一步深化对女性问题的认识。 Sylvia Plass, in the novel The Bell, shapes a talented young woman who has been bewildered by her identity as she grows up. The heroine Esther struggled with a variety of opposite female identity, until the last mental breakdown. Interpreting the causes of Esther’s tragic ending from the perspective of feminist criticism aims at revealing the crisis of social roles of young women and further deepening their understanding of the issue of women.