湖北当代女作家方方用一种“痛苦”但“清醒”的状态对现实世界中人们的生存困境进行了阐释。她用“父亲”这一种神圣的象征来表现对人类在社会中为了生存而进行的挣扎的认识,并从“父亲们”的挣扎中让读者清醒地认识到现实社会中人性的复杂。 Fang Fang, a contemporary Chinese woman writer in Hubei, explained the people’s living predicament in the real world in a kind of “painful” but “sober” state. Using the sacred symbol of “father,” she expresses her awareness of the struggle for human existence in society, and from her struggles with her “fathers,” she gives her readers a clear understanding of the complexity of human nature in the real world.