Intergenerational Characteristics and Spiritual Trajectory of Youth Image Writing in the New Century

Since the new century, the phenomenon of writing about “failed youth”, with the post-70s and post-80s as the main force, has continued the narrative pattern of “country people entering the city” in literary history, not only shaping a category of “new poor” in the city under “personal struggle”, but also creating a new type of character of the times that fits the increasingly obvious solidification of social classes−the “no thought for improvement” youth, also showing the transformation trajectory from the “personal struggle” to the “no thought for improvement” youth image. Such writing tries to dig into the pains of the souls of failed youths, hitting their spiritual anxiety, identity crisis and spiritual emptiness under the hopelessness of “personal struggle”, thus pointing out the shortcomings of today’s social development. However, the writing of the youth image is too much indulged in the appearance of life, which leads to cliché and pattern, and the thinking of the key issue of the times, the relationship between youth and society, is still not deep.