Vol. 7, Issue 1, Part C (2025)

As an important representative of women writers in today’s literature world, Margaret Atwood pays close attention to women’s status, survival and gender politics in many of her works. Relying on Cresswell’s three aspects of mobility, this paper explores the physical movement, meaning and transportation vehicles of Charmaine’s mobility. In The Heart Goes Last, Atwood’s writing on Charmaine’s mobility is of great significance. By portraying Charmaine’s inability to resist the patriarchal system in her mobility, Atwood reveals women’s vulnerability in chaotic social environments, expressing her critique of the patriarchal society that constrains women and her rejection of the “the angel in the house”, in the hope that women can be able to break free and achieve self-growth.