严歌苓作品深刻揭示女性生存状态的艰难现实,着力描述女性在苦难压迫下的不幸遭遇和奋力抗争的艰辛与痛苦,充分展示女性丰富细腻的情感世界和历尽磨难的心路历程,深刻表现了女性多灾多难的悲惨命运,真实揭示了女性在受苦受难的过程中表现出坚强的生命意志和明智的抗争策略。尤其是很多女性在苦难中还能挺身而出,对同样处在困境中的弱者伸出救助之手,在救苦救难的过程中使自己的心灵得到净化,人性得到升华,这种慈悲为怀的人生境界,充分体现了苦难中的女性善良、坚韧和伟大的人格力量。
Yan Geling’s works deeply revealed the harshness of women’s living conditions by focusing on description of women’s struggling and suffering from the oppression of misfortune.Her works vividly displayed women’s rich and delicate emotional world, their mental experiences of all kinds of hardships, and their calamitous fates. Her works also revealed women’s strong life will and appropriate fighting strategies in their sufferings. Furthermore, so many women could step forward bravely from their suffering, while giving a hand for the weak also in harsh conditions. Through this , their soul could be purified and their nature sublimated. The lenience of life represented the kindness , tenacity and greatness of those women in suffering.