First, they lacked the fine composition of true literature. Second, in them Huang had moved away from his greatest strength, the characters and settings with which he was truly familiar. As a result, Huang's 1970s writings were simply records of the period in which they were written and creative experiments. They are interesting in their own way, but are by no means among his best works.
這些當時受過肯定的作品，其實一則缺乏文學上的細膩經營、二則更嚴重的是裡面也沒有黃春明自己真正最熟悉最擅長的角色與背景，作為時代文獻、作為黃春明小說寫作上創新實驗，自有其意義，然而畢竟無法入「傑作」之列。