茅盾小说最大特点是“时代性和社会化”，然而随之而来存在令人深思的矛盾现象。茅盾中长篇小说的网状结构类型是中外小说发展到近代的较高艺术形态，但又是导致他多部作品难以完篇的原因之一。茅盾某些作品风格存在沉闷感，从中可以看出单纯追求艺术广度的缺陷。茅盾比巴金等作家更具有自觉的理性思考，然而理性既有助于组织题材、发挥想象力，也可以阻碍想象力，使主体失落，茅盾在理性思考中的优势和欠缺都表现得比较充分 The most prominent feature of Mao Dun’s novels is “the times and socialization”, however, there is a thought-provoking contradiction. The type of reticulation of Mao Dun’s novels is one of the reasons why Chinese and foreign novels have developed into modern higher artistic forms, but it is also one of the reasons that lead to his incomplete works. Some styles of works in Mao Dun present a dull feeling, from which it can be seen that the simple pursuit of the breadth of art is flawed. Mao Dun than Ba ​​Jin and other writers more consciously rational thinking, however, not only helps to organize the theme, play imagination, but also can hinder the imagination so that the main body lost, Mao Dun in the rational thinking of the advantages and disadvantages are more fully demonstrated