In the field of vision of American Literature in the 20th century,Katherine Anne Porter is highly praised by many readers for her flexible artistic style,accurate and vivid description of characters,profound connotation of her works.As a female writer,Porter is good at creating female characters from a unique female perspective,and reveals the inner activities of female characters in self-development and the female individual consciousness and independent consciousness pursued by women through her works.Although she doesn’t consciously involve feminism,we can see that the heroine’s female consciousness is gradually awakening from her portrayal of female characters and her exploration of female inner world.This paper takes Porter’s short story Theft published in the 1990s as an example to analyze the feminist consciousness in her works from the perspective of feminism.
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