沈从文的创作对近代湖南镜像有充分的动态描绘。社会变革带来家族镜像的变形,凸现出家族命运的变化、家族内部的分化;社会思潮则裹挟着湖南人前行,引发世风转变与心理嬗变,导致人性的变异与价值立场的错位。家族分化、世风转变等带来社会阶层的重构,促成人的社会角色转换,进而打破彼此的身份疆界,发生身份置换。凡此种种,皆是文化冲突使然。这是湖南镜像在近现代发生变化的深层原因,也是最能够凸显沈从文创作特色的所在。
Shen Congwen' works made dynamic description of the image of modern Hunan. Social revolu- tion brought the deformation of the family image, showing the change of the family's fate and internal differentiation. Social trend of thought changed social morality,leading to variation of human nature and value dislocation. The social class was reconstructed by family differentiation,social thought transforma- tion and so on, which helped to cause the social transformation of individual role. All these happened due to cultural conflicts,which was the main factor of the transformation of modern H unan's image, and also was the main foundation of Shen Congwen~s writing style.