The Self-image in the Mirror of the Homesick Consciousness

Through methods of close reading and narrative analysis, focusing upon the cultural nostalgia and self-identity of Chinese modem intellectuals, this paper examines A Little Event and Hometown carefully and thoroughly, which are two short stories by Lu Xun; furthermore, it expounds and proves that the mental and artistic shine from Lu Xun's other fictional classics also spreads over these two short sketches,although many reviews regard them as very dull works.