Other Nativist writers use stories of suffering and pitiable elderly persons to make the case for reform. Huang takes a much gentler approach-not because he thinks the modern world a perfect place, but because he cannot bear to be so harsh.
其他「鄉土小說」裡寫了許多可憐、委屈、受難的老人的故事，用這些故事來進行控訴，要求改革，黃春明相對就溫和得多了，並不是因為他覺得現實狀況沒什麼不好，而是因為他就是不忍心。