This study aims to survey the creation process of female figure as a whole by linking features of female association depending on Shen cong wen's creation period with the characteristics of female figures of each time. Female figures at the first creation period are, in many cases, just passive subjects looked into the eyes of the male writer. This is largely because of a woman named Ma, Yao Mei, and Ding ling, who were those Shen associated when he first started writing literatures. They were women who hided their true colors of wicked women under the veil of positive image of girl and seem to have a huge impact on the creation of female figures by Shen at the initial stage of his literature creation process. At the second period, female figures in his literatures are varied and colorful. There are novels in which a woman is a main character and stories, in many cases, are delivered from a point of view of a woman. Ding ling and Zhang zhao he associating with Shen at that time had a great impact on this. Literatures by Shen in this period were a dedication for the love and friendship with friends and lovers. Female figures at the third period have contradictory characteristics; sometimes it is too ordinary and plain, and others it is too abstract and difficult. This is related to the fact that the association with women did not directly motivate his creation at that time due to the reality called marriage and a special circumstance: war. But, in this period, he was absorbed in creation to capture the lively motion and beauty of life that he had constantly envisioned. In conclusion, by investigating the relationship between his association with women and female figures, the author has been able to identify the meaning of coincidence and women when it comes to creation, as the way he had expressed. His creative tendency was determined according to the nature of women he was in association with each time and the female figures did not stray from the shadows of women he was in association with. This feature on the creation of literatures by Shen suggests that his literary world and female figures are to be interpreted and studied in various ways in the fields such as eco-feminism and gender psychology.

沈從文은 小說創作에 대해서 현실과 꿈이라는 두 성분을 서로 결합시켜야 한다고 피력하였는바, 그가 말하는 現實이라는 것은 自然과 社會에 客觀的으로 存在하는 人事物象을 뜻하고, 반면 꿈이라는 것은 작가의 人事物象에 대한 主觀情感, 그리고 그의 인생에 대한 審美的인 趣向을 의미한다고 볼 수 있다. 沈從文은 창작활동을 시작하기 전의 여러 가지 생활경험의 存留를 心으로, 未來의 이상적 생활의 憧憬을 夢으로 보고, 이러한 心과 夢이 결합되어 쓰여진 小說作品은 바로 작가 자신이 생활하고 사유하고 있는 現實과의 접촉을 통해 얻어진 것이라 간주했다. 프로이드가 文學作品은 일종의 幻想的인 藝術形態로써 이것은 過去ㆍ現在ㆍ未來라는 세 가지 時代를 포함한다고 하였는데, 沈從文 역시 작가의 創作欲求 生成의 근거인 現在를 토대로 過去의 存留하는 經驗과 現在의 未來에 대한 理想的 渴望을 겸비해서 小說創作을 하였다. 그의 小說 ≪변성≫은 이러한 沈從文의 未來指向적인 純粹 人間의 內心을 잘 반영한 대표적인 作品이라 하겠다.