在对乔伊斯及他笔下的女性的认识中，一些评论家认为，乔伊斯憎恶女性，在其作品中歪曲、丑化女性形象。为走出这一误区，我们需要把乔伊斯对女性的态度和他对女性形象的塑造区分开来。通过对乔伊斯生平的了解，我们可以看出乔伊斯在现实生活中是非常尊重、同情都柏林女性的。而在研究《都柏林人》中的女性形象时，一些评论家如康罗伊和很可又误解了作者在对女性人物形象的塑造中流露出的思想感情。本文着重探索小说集《都柏林人》中表现的妇女问题。为了更全面的了解乔伊斯笔下的女性形象，我们在重读文本时，应适当关注作品所涉及的社会背景。按照《都柏林人》中的女性所处的性别角色，我们将她们分为三类，未婚女青年，已婚妇女，和老女人。乔伊斯作为现代主义文学的代表人物，这样的研究方法披露了他在写作中表现出的现实主义的一面。乔伊斯在作品中对女性的大量描写在一定程度上也体现了他对当时都柏林女性的关注。此外，随着不同女性对各自角色的认识、适应、反抗，文本可能流露出对她们的同情、讽刺、或者批评。从处于相同角色中的女性之间的类比，以及对她们和男性人物及男性叙述者之间的关系中可以看出，文本中依女性角色或人物的改变采用了不同的塑造方法，在一定程度上体现出乔伊斯对都柏林女性颇为复杂的思想感情。

Critics often accuse Joyce of misogyny based on their analysis of characterization of women in his works. They confuse Joyce’s attitudes towards women in real life with that towards those in the fictional world. Actually it is unfair to call Joyce a misogynist since he was closely in touch with several women in his life, got help from them, and held respect and sympathy towards them. In examining the characterization of female characters in the collection, some critics such as Conroy and Henke tend to misunderstand the attitudes the author implicitly holds towards them.The thesis aims at exploring the women problem as represented in Dubliners. For a better understanding of Joyce’s attitude towards the issue, the present study focuses on re-reading characterization of the female characters in the collection with due attention to the social backgrounds in Joyce’s time. The female characters in the stories can be divided into three groups according to the gender roles they play, namely, young girls, married women, and spinsters.Such a methodology may draw some attention to the realistic aspect in Joyce as an important representative in literary modernism. The portrayal of various females in the collection reflects to some extent Joyce’s deep concern for the life of Dublin women. In fitting into or struggling against their respective gender roles, the female characters are depicted with different nuances, ranging from an explicit tone of sympathy to subtle expressions of deplorability or criticism. The varied characterization of the female characters reflected in the analogy between themselves, together with their relationship with the male characters and the male narrator, contributes to the ambivalence in the author’s attitudes towards the women in Dublin in Joyce’s time.