玛格丽特·德拉布尔的小说《瀑布》因其内容和形式上的实验性的表现手法备受评论界的关注。本文认为现有的评论都因为过分地关注了小说中的非传统因素而妨碍了对整部作品中体现出的关于传统和创新的思考。总体来看,《瀑布》所展示的是一个女作家的成长过程,是对女性艺术家如何在男权社会中找寻自我,在男性书写传统中突破的探寻。德拉布尔主张女性作家在追求自我身份、寻求崭新的艺术表现方式时,永远需要认真地对待传统,在传统的他者文化中找寻自我,在确立自我的同时,重新认识他者,建构自我的整体性。在传统中创新,在创新中缔造新的传统。 Margaret Drabble’s novel “Waterfall” has received much attention from the critics for its content and formal experimentation. This paper argues that the existing comments all obstruct the reflection on tradition and innovation embodied in the whole work because they focus too much on the non-traditional factors in the novel. Generally speaking, “Waterfall” shows the growth process of a woman writer and is a search of how female artists can find themselves in the patriarchal society and break through in the male writing tradition. Drabble advocates that women writers should always take tradition seriously, seek for themselves in the culture of the other, pursue self-identity and seek new ways of artistic expression, and recognize the other while building oneself and construct oneself Integrity. Innovate in tradition and create new tradition in innovation.