Yan Zhen's novel Because of the Women displays the metamorphoses of value and the loss of faith undergone by a group of female intellectuals during the transitional period. By telling a group of university girl students' romantic experiences in historic market economy, the work profoundly reveals the embarrassing situation the contemporary women intellectuals are in, and describes in detail male chauvinism, materialism and nihilism, and the deconstruction they do to women's spirit. The solemn examination of the reality and the depth of the anatomy of the social issues have aroused reconsideration from the reader for the fate of women in economic times.