作为西方现代主义小说杰出代表的詹姆斯·乔伊斯,较早运用意识流技巧进行小说的创作。他的出现,标志着英美意识流小说的真正崛起。老舍用《老张的哲学》叩响了文学殿堂的大门,在以后的创作中,以他独特的艺术个性为中国现代文学做出了杰出贡献。长篇小说《离婚》即是集中体现老舍艺术风格的代表作品之一。《都柏林人》与《离婚》都运用了“内心独白”和“精神顿悟”的艺术 James Joyce, an outstanding representative of western modernist novels, earlier used the technique of stream of consciousness to create novels. His appearance marks a real rise of British and American stream of consciousness novels. Lao She knocked on the door of the literary palace with the philosophy of Lao Zhang and made outstanding contributions to the modern Chinese literature with his unique artistic personality in later works. The novel “Divorce” is one of the representative works which embodies Lao She’s artistic style. Both Dublin and Divorce use the art of “inner monologue” and “spiritual epiphany.”