藉由再現跨種族婚姻中的白人女人，新移民的文化呈現，以及跨種族領養的亞洲小孩，任璧蓮在她的第三本小說中聚焦於亞美經驗中較少被關注到的議題。為了要挖掘多元的亞美經驗，本篇論文首先討論多種族家庭如何對美國社會中既有的種族結構提出質疑。在第二章則探討白人母親在跨種族家庭中與其他成員的種族關係，以及白人母親如何受到美國主流社會中「無視膚色」的種族態度，進而影響白人母親與小孩之間的互動。第三章則將焦點放在家庭中的新移民，探討新移民如何藉由確立自己的中國人身分在新的環境中尋求連結及生存方式。第四章則將關注轉向家庭中的兩位跨種族領的女孩，藉由他們在這一個多種族家庭中的生命經驗，檢視小孩如何連接不同的種族身分，並就此建立出自己的身分認同。《愛妻》一書呈現了跨種族家庭中無法確立的種族位置。在這樣一個不確定的種族位置下，各個角色對自身及他人的固有的種族意識將被挑戰。

Through the representation of the white woman in the interracial marriage, the newly arrived immigrant, and children of transracial adoption, Gish Jen focuses on Asian American interracial family’s experience in her third novel, The Love Wife. In order to understand the diversified Asian American experiences, this thesis begins with how the Asian American multiracial family in The Love Wife questions the racial structure in American society. The second chapter explores the racial relation between the white mother and her Asian family and how her color-blind racial ideology affects her interaction with her two daughters. The third chapter focuses on the newly arrived immigrant who tries to find the appropriate presentation of her Chineseness in order to make connections in the new land. In the fourth chapter, I reveal how the adoptive daughters would develop their own identities within a multiracial context. Each of these categories represents a unique experience that characters are in an unsteady racial position where their notion of race on the self and others would be challenged.

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