《拥有阴影的女人》是美国当代印第安女作家波拉·甘·艾伦唯一的一部长篇小说。小说主人公伊法妮从小生活在风景如画的印第安村庄,作者对村庄的描述与《圣经》中对伊甸园的描述如出一辙;伊法妮受到创伤,陷入绝望的场景与伊甸园中亚当和夏娃因偷吃禁果而被罚到人间受苦情形相似;小说的救赎主题也是《圣经》要传达给人们的重要主题之一。从神话原型的角度考察《圣经》对这部小说的影响,可以看出《圣经》对世界各族裔文学有着深远影响,另一方面可以为当代印第安人的文化困境提供一些启示。 Shadow Shaped Woman is the only novel of American contemporary American woman writer Polaghan Allen. The protagonist of the novel, Efani, lived in a picturesque Indian village from an early age and the author’s description of the village is exactly the same as that of the Eden described in the Bible. Ephane was traumatized, desperate scenes and Adam and Eve in the Garden of Eden The forbidden fruit was punished with similar human suffering; the salvation theme of the novel is also one of the important topics to be conveyed to the Bible by the Bible. Examining the impact of the Bible on this novel from the perspective of the mythological prototype, we can see that the Bible has a profound impact on the literature of all ethnic groups in the world. On the other hand, it can provide some inspiration to the contemporary Indian cultural predicament.