The orderly evolution of the three identities of daughter

wife and mother is the paradigm of women in the traditional concept. However

in Wang Anyi’s novel

The Song of Everlasting Sorrow

Wang Qiyao’s joys and sorrows in her life are the gentle deconstruction and subversion of this evolution. The ambiguity of the identity of daughter and the absence of the identity of wife are the author’s gender strategy

which was adopted in order to highlight the main position of the protagonist in the gender relationship

replacing the master-slave relationship between the two genders depicted by male writers. Weiwei’s appearance has also provided the writer with the space to dissolve and reconstruct the traditional role of mother

and further deconstruct the relationship between mother and daughter in the patriarchal cultural imagination. Wang Anyi adopted the tolerant "gender co-construction" strategy

which was also the unique feature of

The Song of Everlasting Sorrow

in the trend of female writers in the 1990s.