Abstract: The trend of grass-roots writing is related with the anxieties of contemporary intellectuals. So the so called grass-roots writing merely represents the fragments of miseries in the lower-class society, which can not reveals the true conditions of the lower-class society. In essence, the so called grass-roots writing continues to use the topics and patterns of pure literature, which results in many limits and shortcomings.

Key words: bottom writing, pure literature, miseries in the lower-classsociety