《死水微澜》一书通过细腻的笔触，描写了女主人公蔡大嫂在时代变革中的命运波折与情感纠葛，成功塑造了一个独特且鲜明的女性形象。本文通过分析蔡大嫂女性意识觉醒的表现，探讨蔡大嫂女性意识觉醒的限度。小说在传统和现代的交织中书写着蔡大嫂执着而鲜明的现代性追求，她的身上具有蓬勃的生命和主体意识，使得她能够勇敢地追求爱情和权力，打破了两性之间的权力结构，体现出强烈的女性意识。但在当时女性被作为客体的集体无意识环境下，蔡大嫂虽觉醒了一定的女性意识，但始终无法脱离男性思维的桎梏，难以达到更高的境界。

The book " Ripples Across Stagnant Water " depicts the twists and turns of the fate and emotional entanglements of the heroine Mrs. Cai during the change of the times through delicate strokes, successfully portraying a unique and distinctive image of a woman. This paper explores the limits of Cai's awakening of female consciousness by analyzing the manifestations of her awakening. In the novel, Cai's persistent and distinctive pursuit of modernity is written in the interweaving of tradition and modernity. She has a vigorous life and subjective consciousness, which makes her bravely pursue love and power, break the power structure between the two sexes, and embody a strong sense of female consciousness. However, under the concrete and unconscious environment where women were treated as objects at that time, although Mrs. Cai has awakened a certain degree of female consciousness, she has never been able to break away from the shackles of male thinking, and it is difficult for her to reach a higher realm.