20世纪二三十年代,同样来自小镇的威拉·凯瑟和萧红在各自的文学道路上写下了辉煌的一页,但是由于她们采取了疏离主流的写作态度,在喧嚣的时代大潮中执意书写她们记忆中的宁静家园,遭来同时代评论家的不解和批判,并且相当长一段时间里导致了人们对她们作品的冷落.本文试图从作家个人经历和女性自我认同的角度,分析这种相似的写作态度及其引起的文坛起落的必然性,同时指出这种疏离的态度也正好成就了两位有着独特风格的伟大作家. In the 1920s and 1930s, Willa Cather and Xiao Hong, both from the same town, wrote a brilliant page on their respective literary paths. However, due to their alienated mainstream writing attitude, Insisting on writing the tranquil homeland in their memory, being misunderstood and criticized by contemporary critics, and for a long period of time led to the neglect of their works.This paper attempts to analyze from the perspectives of the author’s personal experience and female self-identity This similar attitude toward writing and the inevitability of its ups and downs caused by the literary world also point out that this alienation attitude has exactly accomplished two great writers with unique styles.