This study aims at analysing and comparing the portrayal of women in Tewodros Teferra’s Journey of A Passion (2012) and Asfaw Legesse’s Changed Fate (2019). The research tries to investigate the Portrayal of Women observed in the selected Ethiopian novels in English. The study attempts to see whether women are depicted discriminatively or not and tries to answer the researcg question:How women are portrayed in the selected Ethiopian novels in English . Textual analysis is used as a methodology for this study. Based on the theoretical frameworks of traditional gender roles and patriarchy, the researcher examines the feminist issues highlighted in the novels. The result of the analysis shows the portrayal of strong protagonist female characters in both novels. The protagonist characters of both novels are represented by strong, educated and economically independent women. They oppose the principles of traditional gender roles and patriarchy. Besides their strength, the protagonist character of Journey of A Passion is politically submissive and inactive. In Changed Fate, few minor characters are portrayed as victims of traditional gender roles. Unlike the time that the novels are written, women in both novels have more or less similar characterizations. Nearly similar themes are reflected in both male authored Ethiopian novels in English. As a result, the analysis contains female characters who are strongly struggling to succeed their passion. Both protagonists try to succeed their passion at the end of their life journey. Formerly, the leading character of Changed Fate reinforces the norms of patriarchal principles, but later she becomes against it. So, through time, Emebet changes her attitude and becomes a strong woman by succeeding her dream.