沈从文笔下的老湘西儿子在近现代社会变动中,面临着生存的窘迫与困境,存在的陌生与荒谬,他们是那个时代的“堂.吉诃德”。从沈从文对老湘西儿子的“笑”中带“泪”的抒写中,反映了他对湘西民族生存的日益加深的焦虑感和强烈的危机感,对其在现代社会的命运感到“沉郁隐痛”。 In the changes of modern society, the son of the old Xiangxi under Shen Congwen faced with the distress and predicament of existence, the strangeness and absurd existence, and they were the “Don Quixote” of that era. From Shen Congwen’s writing of “tears” in the “laughter” of Laoxiangsi’s son, it reflects his deepest sense of anxiety and intense sense of crisis about the survival of the nation in Xiangxi and “depressions and pains” in the destiny of modern society. .