Abstract：American writer Kate Chopin’s masterpiece Awakening and British writer Doris Lessing’s The Golden Notebook are both viewed as classical feminist works,which were respectively published in 1899 and 1962. By interpreting the hard pursuit feminist of in the two novels,this paper holds the opinion that in addition to the Phallocentrism viewed as the block of feminist,the two novels both have reflected on the harder problems on the road of the feminist pursuit: motherhood,womanhood and human nature. And the corresponding resolutions differ from each other in the two novels. Compared to the historical limita-tion showed in Awakening,The Golden Notebook has revealed its relatively more rational and far-sighted view on the development of feminism.

Keyword：literary works; feminism; harmony of men and women;