Wang Anyi takes the female as the lead of her metropolis writing.She pays close attention to the daily life of the city,focusing on the urban ordinary women.Wang Anyi's city is the place that the desire are released,the city's secular women showing utilitarian side in order to realize their desires.Wang Anyi's city also has the characteristics of drifting,so the urban women she describes have always been in a lonely and drifting state of life.