The Lack Of Modernity - Money Concept With Two, Thirties Fiction Modernity Characteristics,

This thesis choses "monetary concept" to concern modernity character of Chinesenovel from 1920s to 1930s. It can be divide into three parts: literary thought, psychologyof the author, and novel compose. From those parts, we can find the shortage of development of the novel from 1920s to 1930s.From literary thought, the "literature of person" that "the May 4th movement" puts in don't consider the needs of person. At the same time, the revolutionists of "the May 4th movement" consider it as inhuman selfish and ignorance. In the urgent requisition of "setting up country", the concept of person is an abstract notion, and runs short of reality. So the modernity character of "the May 4th movement" has a shortage.From psychology of the author, traditional psychology of literator restricts the formation of modern psychology. Intensely anxious consciousness of society and practical spirit, traditional concept of "morality and profit" and prominent consciousness, make intellectual experience more intense psychology fall when they face the money in the process of the vocational transformation than common person. All of those embody fully the complexity of process of modernity.From literature compose, the novel becomes the more important mode. There are some modernity characters in subject matter and construction. Those are very different from the traditional novel. Because of the shortage of "monetary concept" and the disgusted and resentful psychology, the novel has some shortcomings of modernity character in topic ,subject matter, construction, and narration.From the view of "monetary concept", we can find, there are some faults in modernity character from 1920s to 1930s. They can't recognize duplex dimension of monetary and modernity, so they can't grasp the relation between them. They can't hold the core of modernity, that is modern thinker pattern. Ultimately, they slump into a bout of crazy hanker to Utopia of money.