Among Mao Dun's three short stories, "The Waking of Insects" is an allegorical novel, describing the season of Waking of Insects and the budding of all things, which is a metaphor for the arrival of spring for the people. "An Ideal Hits a Wall" describes the life experiences of the author's friends in Guangzhou, Hong Kong and other places in the second year of the Anti-Japanese War. The character S in the work is the author himself. "Spring" takes Warwick from Zhang Tianyi's "Mr. Warwick" as the protagonist, depicting this typical "other" image that is "despicable, hateful, even terrifying" under the new historical conditions.