As a result, such life is characterized by a special emptiness and loneliness. For example, in the story "My friend A-li-sa," Taipei's yuppies are portrayed as "headless flies," buzzing around without purpose and ignorant of where to find meaning in their lives. A-li-sa is thus driven to suicide, and A-li-sa's friend, the narrator of the story, has an attitude of resignation and sentimentality.
譬如在「我的朋友阿里薩」裡，台北的雅痞族變成了一些無頭蒼蠅，不知到何處去找他們生命的寄託，所以阿里薩只好自殺以終，而阿里薩的朋友，本篇的敘述者「我」，則表現出一種無可奈何的感傷、認命態度。