王禎和的〈小林來台北〉開啟了他後期批判社會、臧否人物的文風。他在航空公司工作的所見所聞，觸使他提筆寫下這篇作品，表達他對被剝削壓迫的社會下層的同情，以及他對奢華糜爛的社會上層的譴責。在作品的佈局中，他利用對比結構，呈現航空公司內上下兩階層的人物形象。在風格修辭方面，則運用諧音、夸飾、摹寫、譬喻、借代等辭格，生動刻畫他所要嘲弄的上層人物及他所要同情的下層人民，達到諷刺、教化的功能。

"Hsiao-lin's Come to Taipei" by Wang Tsen-ho is one of his works in the later period whose characteristics are to criticize the society and to satirize some people. As he has worked for an airline, what he observed there leads him to write this fiction. In this work he sympathizes with those who are exploited and condemns those who are rotten. He makes use of juxtaposition as structure to contrast the two types of people in the airline. The didactic and satiric tones of this fiction are revealed by his use of homophones, hyperboles, images, metaphors, metonyms, similes, and other figures of speech.