任碧莲在《典型美国人》中以轻快、诙谐、反讽的笔触 ,表现了中国移民追求“美国梦”的奋斗历程 ,探讨了美国族裔双重文化身份的转换和建构、双重价值标准的冲突和调和 ,质疑了“熔炉”模式中“典型美国人”的定义 ,颠覆美国主流社会对族裔的本质论式的偏见。 Ren Bailian expresses the struggling course of Chinese immigrants pursuing the “American Dream” in the “typical American” with his bland, humorous and ironic strokes, and explores the transformation and construction of the dual-cultural identity of ethnic Americans, the conflict and reconciliation of double values , Questioned the definition of “typical American” in the “Furnace” model and overthrows the prejudice against the fundamentalist argument of ethnicity in mainstream American society.