存在焦虑围困下的个体价值选择仅从《半罐局长》的标题就很容易让人将其划归到“官场小说”之列。小说确实也涉及到了官场,将宕县县政府与下属的职能部门牵连其中,但在内容的展开中却鲜有官员腐化的手笔,政治色彩在小说中也一直处于虚化的状态。小说的官场生活,更多的是作为小说人物活动的场域而存在,供生活上映,展现时代个体的焦虑。不同于以往对小人物生存焦虑的关注,《半罐局长》忽视了生存层面带给底层人物的焦虑与无助,更多的是将社会中的个体作为对象,在 Individual Value Choice Under Anxiety Survival It is easy to classify a person as “bureaucratic novel” only from the title of “director of half a pot.” The novel did involve the officialdom too, which implicated the county government and its subordinate functional departments in Danxian County. However, in the content development, there were few corruptive officials and the political color in the novels. The officialdom life of the novel, more of it, exists as the field of novel characters’ activities for the release of life and the anxiety of the individual in the times. Different from the previous concerns about the anxiety of the existence of small people, “half-board director” overlooked the anxiety and helplessness brought to the bottom by the survival level, and more focused on the individual in society