What Are They Looking For, And Where Will They Be Going?

As a academic novels, SMALL WORLD establish an era groups such as university academics .They have some Common problems which the negative intellectuals have in the traditional stories such as like money and have bad character. So SMALL WORLD can be seen as New Scholars to some extent. But they also have a kind of century-disease of this century. They keep chasing something,but they do not know what they want to chase.They are the people who have the spirit of emptiness and they do not know how to find the meaning of life.They live in this world,but they close the real-self in the deep-inside.They are different from the intellectuals over the past. They are the product of the post-industrial era. Humanism and scientism are the two humanities pillars of the community. And they promote the discovery of human and the rationality of the modernism. However,when anything develop to the extreme stage,it will inevitably move towards the negative.The people in the SMALL WORLD have all problems of Post-modern society and modern society, such as the greed of human nature, the loss of life and so on. Perth,the main character of the novel,who keep on chasing but do not know what he want to chase .And he can not find anything and do not know where they will be go. It is clear that the author find the problems of this community ,but he want to search for the way out of the community.In the story ,wo can find that the author appreciate Perth of his good and honest. But the readers feel that the main character looks funny.So we have to say what we want to find is in the real society and we should live in it but not others. We should return to society and return to reality. This is the most sensible choice.