The "Absence" Of Father

The images of adults are various in adolescent novels. A kind of phenomenon which arouses my attention when I take my view on the contemporary Chinese literature is that the role of fathers in adolescent novels is vague and gloomy, compared with the other shining roles of mothers/ teachers. Why the images of fathers are only unacquainted, closemouthed and stiff in those works? Nevertheless, the critics indeed did little research on it. Even though, we still should attach importance to the images of fathers. Is it a common strategy to deal with fathers with blurry images or a mere coincidence? An effective way to study this phenomenon is to analyze from cultural background, influence of history, and self-identity etc.How the immense tension between father's presence and absence make the context more profound, how the context leave father "not present", how father is properly ignored and become invisible, and the replacement of father are discussed in the paper to find the multiple cultural significance of the role of father.This paper selects cases from the novels since 1980s in China Mainland to find the collective neglect of the intensive description of father among those writers, who depict father as being far from children with purely mute trait. From massive works, some typical ones are illustrated to anatomize the writer's thinking and narrating strategy.