This paper mainly analyzes the positive and negative representations of sisterhood in Gloria Naylor s novel The Women of Brewster Place,thus revealing the dream to realize womanism is deferred because of the compulsory heterosexuality in the patriarchal culture.

This paper tries to compare the sisterhood between the two novels in eastern and western cultures,and points out that the sisterhood is the only and temporary shelter in male society and cannot radically save women and is not an effective way to help women getting rid of the difficult condition.

American black female writer Alice Walker emphasizes the importance of establishing sisterhood among female blacks.

The Sisters as the Introduction to Dubliners;

The Elegy of the Body--An Interpretation of Joyce s The Sisters;