The writings of Hamlin Garland, an American rural novelist, provides particular reference value to Chinese present process of urban and rural modernization. As a creative and self-conscious novelist both in content and form, Garland not only emotionally describes the elder generation’s hardship and broken dreams in the pre-modern agricultural work, but also represented the rush, confusion and thinking of the dream-chasing youth in and between urban and rural. In the dramatically changing era, his novels focus on casting a brave and sound modern ethnic spirit through the shared course of people’s mental growth and national development. By honestly narrating the common irreversible nostalgia in the course, Garland holds a great concern on ethics choice and rational mature of the mass of general readers, thus boosting the education and construction of social fairness and justice.