美国著名黑人女作家爱丽丝·沃克在《日常用品》中成功地塑造了代表传统文化的母亲和代表现代风格的女儿的形象,围绕如何理解和继承祖传的被子展开情节,反映了由种族问题引起的家庭矛盾,借母女冲突表达了一个十分重要的主题:继承民族文化传统的意义在于深刻的认识理解其文化内涵,而不是浮于表面、流于形式。 Alice Walker, a famous American black woman writer, has succeeded in shaping the image of the mother of traditional culture and the daughter of the modern style in her “daily necessities.” The story revolves around how to understand and inherit the ancestral quilt, which is caused by racial problems The family conflict expressed a very important theme through the clashes between mothers and daughters. The significance of inheriting the national cultural tradition lies in profound understanding of its cultural connotations, rather than being superficial and mere formality.