农村青年冯家昌为了能够成为城里人，压抑人性，失去自我，在现实与情感的漩涡中挣扎，既表现出了农民的隐忍与机智，又从另一侧面批判了这种现状的不合理性，呼唤着时代变革的早日到来。支书女儿刘汉香在情感的折磨中站立起来，则以自己的心点亮了"挺进"城市之灯。支书国豆这个形象，则是作家对乡村基层权力代表人物的集中概括，真实地刻划了乡村权力运作的过程。另一方面，作家还写出了"侯秘书"、"小佛脸"等谙熟权力场技巧的小人物。小说文字温婉，具有诗性的张力，抒情诗般的句式，音乐般的节奏，为人们营造了一个可感可触的艺术氛围。（To become a city person, the rural youth Feng Jiachang depresses humanity, loses himself and struggles in the vortex of reality and emotion. This book not only presents the peasant's restraint and wisdom, but also criticizes the irrationality of the situation from another side, calling the change of time to come as soon as possible. Standing up in the emotional torture, Liu Hanxiang, the daughter of the secretary of a Party or League branch, lightens the light of marching forward the city with her heart. The figure Guodou, the secretary of a Party or League branch, is the centralized summarization of the representative authority at basic level in countries by the writer. The country power operation process is described truly. On the other side, the writer set the small figures like Secretary Hou and Xiaofolian who are familiar with the skill of power circle. The novel has gentle words with poetic tension, sentence pattern like lyric poetry and canorous rhythm, building an artistic atmosphere which could be felt and touched.）