The paper, taking "what to say" and"how to say it" as its starting point, discusses the speech individuality of characters in literary works in order to reveal its multi purpose functions in picturing distinctly and accurately the characters and theirs personalities, especially discusses the function of "how to say it" in vivifying the characters and in delineating their inner world.

This essay is to reveal the pioneer novels change from "what does it write" to "how to write" by comprehending Gefei s The Lost Boat, to affirm that the pioneer novels not only provide a perfectly new methodology, but also show an extroaordinary description of real life .