Abstract: The essay reinterprets SHI Zhecun’s developments and transformations in novelistic form from 1930s to 1940s and tries to reveal that SHI’s stylistic transformation in the late 1930s is not sudden and passive, but spontaneous and strongly motivated. Emphasizing that the subject of “family life” with “wife” as the centre is of significance in his creation, the study investigates the subject’s flow among different styles; furthermore, it takes “home” as a kind of metaphorical structure: the concept of “home” always implies “domestic”. In SHI’s works, “home” becomes a field for competition between “domesticity” and “alienness”; as a result, domesticity is gradually restored. From the perspective of writing technique, it is exactly the readjustment and contraction of psychological space that releases “home” from the surreal grotesque land to a steady realistic space. That is to say, the internal restoration of domesticity and locality ultimately extends to the external, working in concert with SHI’s reselection of traditional generic form and literary techniques.

Key words: SHI Zhecun, home, domesticity, alienness, psychological description