《我在霞村的时候》是丁玲探索女性生命境遇的小说之一。其特殊性在于它提出了一个关涉革命女性日常生存的尖锐议题:为革命而失贞的女性将如何选择其人生道路,她还能否有属于其个体性的人生幸福?在贞操观念成为女性生命桎梏的传统中国,对革命政权而言,这亦是一个十分隐晦尴尬而无法解决的问题。丁玲对这一议题的理解,恰恰呈现在对贞贞结局的处理中。带着明显革命理想主义构想的结尾,确实在一定程度上消解了问题的尖锐性,使故事矛盾张力最终趋于平缓。然而,如若考虑到中国女性解放历史空间的逼仄及其对中国革命的依附性,那么,丁玲为处于历史夹缝的“失贞”革命女性继续选择“延安道路”便不是不可理解的。 “When I was in Xia Village” was one of the novels that Ding Ling explored the female life situation. Its peculiarity is that it presents a sharp issue concerning the daily survival of revolutionary women: how will women who are destitute of the revolution choose their life path, and whether or not they have the happiness of their own individual life? When the concept of virginity becomes a woman’s life The ridiculous traditional China is also a very obtrusive and unsolvable problem for the revolutionary regime. Ding Ling’s understanding of this issue is precisely presented in the handling of the ending of Zhenzhen. With the end of the idea of ​​a clear revolutionary idealism, it really solved the sharpness of the issue to a certain extent, and eventually the tension in the story contracted to be gentle. However, taking into account the shrinking historical space of Chinese women’s liberation and their dependence on the Chinese revolution, it is not incomprehensible that Ding Ling will continue to choose “Yan’an Road” for the “unsuccessful” revolutionary women in history. .