Much has been discussed about the autonomy and female identity of Edna in Kate Chopin’s The Awakening and Clarissa in Virginia Woolf’s Mrs Dalloway respectively. This paper bridges the two novels and the social pain in social psychology , arguing that the living problems the protagonists as female members of the society remain unsolved due to three progressive factors: loss of sense of worth as a wife and mother, abortion of their extramarital liaisons and failure to find other social support. The paper names the predicament that “has no name” as “social pain”.