Modernist techniques are used not in "art for art s sake" but for "art in the artist s sake": William Faulkner aimed at articulating spiritual predicament of people in modern society.

The deep reason leading to Haizi s suicide is presented from three aspects: the mental troubles such as anxiety, alienation and loneliness; the belief that serves as the basis and the prerequisite for his existence; and the mental salvation from his spiritual crisis.

The mental troubles of Haizi are presented from four aspects: anxiety,alienation,loneliness and the crisis of belief which plays the basis and the prerequisite for human being to exist in the world.

From the mental predicament suffered by large disabled people from the external world and themselves,Shi Tiesheng s handicapped fictions discover the mankind s broad sense of "handicap" and see through the fact that mankind is just widespread sinking into a disable and sick mental predicament.

The mental predicaments among higher vocational students include those of ideology,personality,psychology and employment,the causes for which lie in the negative influence of social environment on themselves,the influence of school ideological and political education and that of family environment on their mental state as well.