徐玉诺所竭力展示的道德意识是河南农民头脑中所具有的一种在劳动生活中建立起来的较为纯粹的善恶观念。他很少在作品中表现出鲜明的善恶意识,人物也没有严格的正反面之分,他对每个人物似乎都有一种“怜悯”的态度。与鲁迅小说中对道德意识的绝望态度不同,徐玉诺的道德意识观较为纯粹,人性缺失尚有挽回的余地。
Xu Yunuo's moral consciousness is a kind of purely good and evil concept which is established in the minds of Henan peasants in the labor life. He rarely shows a clear sense of good or evil in his works, also there is no strict positive and negative, and he seems to have a "compassion" attitude for ev-ery character. It is quite different from Lu Xun's novels on the moral consciousness of despair, Xu Yun-uo's moral consciousness is more pure, and there has space for recovery the humanity.