年輕女性的醜怪經驗是波特小說中重要的課題之一。本文要探討的是波特＜少女 薇兒蕾特＞、＜盛開的猶大花＞和《愚人船》諸作品中年輕女性，如何在性別角色刻板化的 社會結構中掙扎著成長。波特是個真正追尋真理的藝術家，她的描繪忠實的呈現出女性在自 我追求與社會期許兩難中的困境。痛苦的生活模式可以說是年輕女子的最佳生活寫照，波特 以嘲諷的筆調道出了女性的處境。
Young female bildungsroman is a dominant theme in Katherine Anne Porter's action. In this paper's fiction I intend to explore some of her works - "Virgin Violeta," "Flowering Judas," and Ship of Fools-that deal with females' growing- uP experiences in rigid gender codes. Porter, as a real artist searching for truth, depicts and presents young females' dilemmas. Her young women's desires for authenticity or ration into adult society always come into collision with traditional social expectations. Therefore, the pattern of pain may be used as a proper term for young females' life experience. Porter gives an expression of it in an ironic inversion of humanistic norms by rigid gender codes.
