虽然吴趼人认为小报生涯妨碍了他的进步,但是实际上办小报对他后来的小说创作有非常重要的作用。吴趼人的小报生涯为他的小说创作提供了丰富的生活素材、深刻的思想内容和娴熟的写作技巧,并使他及时了解时代动向,顺风而动,投入“小说界革命”的潮流。在晚清众多的报人兼小说家中,吴趼人极富于代表性。 Although Wu Mi people think tabloid career impedes his progress, but in fact do tabloid for his subsequent creation of novels has a very important role. Wu Mi’s tabloid career has provided rich material, profound ideological content and skillful writing skills for his novels and made him keep abreast of the trend of the times, moving in the wind and moving into the trend of “revolution in fiction circles.” In the late Qing numerous newspaper reporters and novelists, Wu Mi people very representative.