In addition to the heroine, Chen Yun, the other women in the Six Chapter of a Floating Life are suffering a tragic life as well, such as grandma Shen, Hanyuan, Cuigu, and Xi’er etc. Therefore, the author will do some research on the tragic lives of these women characters. The paper is aimed at drawing more attention to, understanding of and sympathy for them, and furthermore, realizing the cause of women’s oppression and abuses the dehumanizing system. While reflection on the roots of the tragic life of women in that dark age, readers can also appreciate the implicit beauty of tragedy in this book.