zuò zhě / zài / xiǎo shuō / zhōng / yǐ / zhǔ rén gōng / zì kuàng / shū fā / le / nèi xīn / kǔ mèn

作者在小说中以主人公自况，抒发了内心苦闷。

The author used the protagonist as a self-analogy in the novel to express his inner anguish.