The most distinguished achievement of the lamp over the branch road is its creation of a number of vivid images who are of the following three features : number one , its uniqueness : the creating of the image of the black sheep of a family arid playboys filled up the blank page of the classical chinese novels ; number two , its diversity of images , there was never that many images of the same kind appearing in the classical chinese novels before ; number three , its vividness : its vivid images of the characters playing a part role in a novel 摘要《歧路灯》最突出的艺术成就是塑造了众多栩栩如生的人物形象，此小说的人物形象塑造呈现出三个显著特点：一是独特性，败子及浮浪子弟群像，填补了中国古典小说人物类型的某些空白；二是丰富性，同类群像如此之多，在中国古典小说中是没有过的；三是鲜明性，一些反面人物、小人物个性鲜明。
