摘要：Bernard Shaw (1856-1950) is one of the world famous playwrights, is a household wordsmith for his good humor and satire. In his masterpiece Mrs. Warren's Profession, Shaw depicts a literary figure Vivie who embodies new women's yearning for their independence and aspirations of self-values. This paper analyzes Vivie's image through approaches of narrative theory. By using narrative voice reflected in the scene, involvement of implied author in portrayal description, application of feminism in narratology, and dualistic construction in subtext, readers can have a more profound understanding of Vivie's image. Instead of a mouthpiece of "new women", the nature of Vivie's image is just sketched out on the basis of an ideal man under the male-dominated capitalist society. This paper concludes that in the capitalist society women were under the control of patriarchal discourse.
