Abstract: The Ninth Widow is a new work of Yan Geling in 2006. Its main character is Wang Putao——a singular female image. Her distinctive features are doughtiness and uncoventionality, and the two contrary aspects are in mental chaos. This paper aims at exploring this phenomenon. To make the analysis easier, her doughtiness is classified into fearlessness and rudeness; her uncoventionality is classified into that of politics and that of personal interests. This essay also explains the contributing factors of the character’s mental chaos as well as its significance of the times. To some extent, this image is a bit dramatic and ideal, but there’s deep actual basis for her existence. It also reflects the author’s ponder over ideal feminity or ideal humanity.

Key words: the ninth widow, Yan Geling, multi female image, Wang Putao