摘要:池莉的《看麦娘》以看麦娘为线索，以易明莉寻找女儿为情节，来表现出作者对现代人精神交流的贫乏的不满，和对精神家园追求的愿望。本文通过探讨导致精神家园荒芜的原因，以及文本意象（容容，看麦娘，上官瑞芳等）的解读，来阐述小说的中心思想：人类精神家园的荒芜与追寻这个主旨。告诉人们，要有自己的精神理念，并且鼓励人们不断的寻找精神家园，有未来就有希望。

关键词: 看麦娘；精神家园；荒芜；追寻

Abstract： Chili's novel Alopecurus uses alopecurus as the clue and Yi Mingli's looking for her daughter as the plot to betray the writer's discontent about the poor  intellectual conversation among modern people and her wishes to pursue spiritual home. Through discussing the reasons leading to aridity of god home, interpretation of three images (Rongrong, Alopecurus, Shangguan Ruifang and so on) , this paper aims to elaborate on the central idea: the aridity and pursuit of spiritual home of mankind. Telling people that, they are expected to have their own idea of the spirit, and encouraging people to continue to find spiritual home. While there is a future, there is a hope.

Keywords：Alopecurus; spiritual home; aridity; pursuit