Abstract: Antoinette is the heroine of the Endless Sea of Algae (1966), a novel by Jane Rees (1894-1979). She is the ex-wife of Rochester, the hero reinvented by Jane Rees after Jane Eyre (1847), a novel by Charlotte Bronte (1816-1855) in the 19th century. Mary Carson is a rancher in the Thorn Birds (1977), a legendary family novel by Australian contemporary writer Colleen McCullough (1937 1). Two women in the era background, social environment and their own life experience are not the same, the former from the British colonial West Indies in the Western Hemisphere in the early 19th century with her husband came to the United Kingdom, from the slave system with 30,000 pounds of dowry after the dissolution of the "slave owner" Miss daughter into a penniless confined on the roof of the mad woman; The latter came alone from Ireland in the northern hemisphere to Australia in the southern hemisphere in the late 19th century, from a poor girl with almost no property to speak of to a wealthy woman with 13 million pounds of property. Their respective psychological temperament is also very different, intriguing.

This paper attempts to analyze the images of Antoinette and Mary Carson from the perspective of psychology based on the texts of the Endless Sea of Algae and the Thorn Birds, compare their psychological characteristics, and explore the relationship between gender roles and women's liberation, as well as the significance of establishing bisexual personality for the development of women's liberation movement.

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