白人女性桑德拉在殖民中扮演着殖民者与被压迫者的角色。作为殖民者,无论是对待丈夫辛格,还是对待伊莎贝拉的本地人、移民及第三世界的女性,她都表现出一种殖民者的强势及霸道。作为女性,她又受着父权及夫权两方面的压迫,被父亲赶出家门,之后又成为丈夫的附庸。国内外有研究者对《模仿者》做过研究。外国研究者一般从经济、政治、思想文化等方面分析奈保尔 Sandra, a white female, plays the role of a colonizer and an oppressed in colonialism. As a colonialist, she has demonstrated the strength and overbearing of a colonialist, whether she is treating her husband Singh, or treating Isabella’s natives, immigrants and women in the Third World. As a woman, she was oppressed by both father’s and husband’s rights and was expelled from her family by her father and later became a vassal of her husband. Researchers at home and abroad have done research on “imitators.” Foreign researchers generally analyze Naipaul from the aspects of economy, politics, ideology and culture