So the other day I read two comics back to back. Action Comics #988 centered around the conflict between Kryptonian arrogance and the savagery of Earth on both an acute and historical scale. Superman is currently stuck in the role of mediator, as a Kryptonian human.
DC Special Series #5 is a 64 page story where Superman must fulfill the prophecy of his own second coming despite a Lex/Brainiac plot to literally kick his ass so hard that not a single erg of energy is left in his body.
I love this kind of thing because to me, Superman is a normal guy. An earthling from Krypton. He is Kryptonian, but that more or less puts him in the same boat as any other refugee from the last 80 years, and he's spent at least 3/4 of his life in the middle of America. These bizarre happenings would go right above him, but since he can fly he ends up rolling with them.
Superman is the front runner for superheroes, north American myths that have him rub shoulders with Hercules and Thor. And so he ends up creating more miracles on accident than other characters make intentionally throughout their printed history. What does that make him to you? Obviously he's fully representative of different things, like how no man is only part husband and part father, but from which direction does your perspective lean?