The plot of the novel is compact and the atmosphere is tense. It has no humorous tone, but a serious and severe criticism. With great anger, the author pointed his criticism at the cruelty of the feudal rulers. Dagong is a tyrant who stifles humanity and art, and his residence is a hell on earth. He pointed out that works of art are the most valuable in society, and artists should pursue the perfection of art at all costs.
In this writer's works, Liang Xiu's daughter is a symbol of beauty. She is beautiful, kind and filial. Although she is in a difficult situation and helpless, she would rather die than give in to God. When she disappeared in the blazing fire, her soul released a tragic beauty. The opposite of this beauty is an evil face, Lord Horry. He failed to usurp Haoxiu's daughter, and his possessiveness was not satisfied. In order to avenge himself, he burned Haoxiu's daughter to Haoxiu. In this sharp and contradictory conflict, the essential characteristics of the characters have been fully reflected.
The author tells such a story and depicts such a character, which not only exposes the cruelty of Japanese feudal rule, but also implies the social reality that "hell is not as good as hell". A enslaved painter, an art supremacist, his mind is looking for the ultimate art, and his body has fallen into a hell on earth. In the conflict between art and life, good performance did not find the way out of art, and death became the only way out. The author lives in a private society, unwilling to accept the hypocritical and ugly reality, but unable to find a way of hope. In the vague anxiety about the future, suicide at the age of 35 also plays a tragedy in life.