美国作家亨利·詹姆斯在其“国际性主题”小说里主要塑造了两种脸谱化的人物形象:即纯洁无邪、天真浪漫的“国际美国少女”及世故势利、老练圆滑的欧洲人。通过作家各阶段部分“国际性主题”小说的分析,笔者指出作家塑造的这两类人物形象,与其说是历史事实,毋宁说是一种文化隐喻。作家过于强调美国人道德感的背后,恰恰隐藏了美国文人长期积淀的文化自卑,因而试图通过提升道德意识来实现文化上的超越。而运用婚姻模式实现欧美文化融合的企图,在某种意义上则是对作家本人缺失体验的心理补偿。 American writer Henry James mainly created two kinds of masqueraded characters in her “international theme” novel: pure and innocent, innocent and romantic “American Girl of the International” and sophisticated and sophisticated Europe people. Through the analysis of some “international theme” novels by various stages of the writer, the author points out that these two types of characters shaped by writers are not so much a historical fact as a cultural metaphor. Too much emphasis on American moral sense behind the writer just hides the cultural inferiority long-term accumulated by American literati, and tries to achieve cultural transcendence by raising moral awareness. The attempt to use the marriage mode to achieve the cultural integration between Europe and the United States is, in a certain sense, a psychological compensation for the writer’s own lack of experience.