经历了早期军旅的“青春记忆”、留学及移民的“流散语境”，再到回望故国的“红尘叙事”，严歌苓的小说创作已自成一脉，这些充斥着女性经验的文本世界里，一直潜藏着严歌苓对时代思潮的自觉或非自觉的纳入和吸收，不同历史时期的女性形象的嬗变，显现出女性“精神主体建构”逐步发展的历史进程，清晰地表现了作家自觉寻找女性自我救赎途径的意图。

After experiencing the "memories of youth" in the early military life, the "diaspora context" of studying abroad and immigration, and then "world of mortals" in looking back at the old country, Yan Geling's novel creations have formed their own style. In these novels full of women's experience, Yan Geling has always hidden the conscious or unconscious incorporation and absorption of the trend of thought of the times. The evolution of women's images through historical periods shows the gradual development of women's "spiritual subject construction" and it reveals the writer's intention to seek female self-salvation.