Ambivalence in Representation of Women Images in Humboldt’s Gift

There have been two completely different views about Saul Bellow’s creation of female images among critics. The female characters in Bellow’s early works have been criticized by the feminists, but the critics speak highly of Bellow’s female images in his later works. The doubts and controversies stem from Bellow’s complex emotions towards women. This paper focuses on the female characters and studies Bellow’s ambivalent emotions towards women reflected in representation of women images in Humboldt’s Gift.