穆时英作为中国第一个现代派——新感觉派的“圣手”，率先领悟了现代都市中个体生命所遭遇的精神困境——人的异化、孤寂感、漂泊感、失落感和自我分裂，这就是现代都市个体生存的焦虑体验。他对现代人性的探索回应了“五四”时期对“人的文学”的呼唤。通过对传统小说叙事模式的反叛和对当时主流文学的有意背离，以感觉流的叙事结构、语言陌生化、内聚焦和视角转换等方式为现代人性构建了全新的小说文本。 Mu Shiying, as the “saint hand” of China’s first modernist and new sensationist, took the lead in comprehending the spiritual dilemmas encountered by individual life in modern cities - human alienation, loneliness, sense of wandering, sense of loss and self-splitting, This is the anxiety experience for the survival of modern urban individuals. His exploration of modern human nature responded to the call of “human literature” during the May 4th Movement. Through the rebellion of the narrative pattern of traditional novels and the deliberate deviation from the mainstream literature at that time, a new novel text has been constructed for the modern human nature through the narrative structure of the stream, language defamiliarization, internal focus and perspective transformation.