艾里森的《看不见的人》反映了20世纪三四十年代美国仍旧存在的种族歧视,并揭示了在这种状态下美国黑人的生存困境,是一幕探索自我本质和实现自我理想的悲剧。着重分析了主人公“我”探索自我本质所作出的努力,以及作为现代人的美国黑人在寻找自我过程中的异化感和自我本质的失落。同时也探讨了它给我们现代人的启示。 Allison’s “invisible person” reflects the racial discrimination still existing in the United States in the 1930s and 1940s and reveals that the predicament of Afro-American survival in this state is a tragedy of exploring the essence of oneself and realizing one’s own ideal . It analyzes emphatically the protagonist “I” to explore the nature of self, as well as the loss of the alienation and self-essence of the modern Afro-Americans in their search for self. It also explores the enlightenment it gives us.