長期身處教育界的陳恒嘉，對於教育相關問題也就十分熟悉且關切，以致於他的小說人物當中，有很大的比例是「老師」，其中有出現「老師」角色的作品包括：〈從一個喪禮中離去〉、〈橫財〉、〈這些當老師的〉、〈沒有根的〉、〈騙徒〉、〈老師：人家也要升旗〉、〈影子〉、〈郎中〉、〈畫自像〉、〈剝〉、〈「夜尿」症者〉、〈暗鬼〉、〈無賴〉、〈落翅仔〉、〈師者〉、〈失蹤〉、〈遠足〉等。本文從陳恒嘉小說著手，以「老師」形象的創作為核心，討論他的寫作技巧與主題意識。

Chen Heng-jia had been workign as an educator for a long time. He was very familiar with education-related issues and paid close attention to theses issues. Therefore, a large proportion of the characters in his novels are teacheers. The works in which teachers as characters exist include ”Departed from a Funeral,” ”Such a Teacher,” ”Doctor,” ”Bad Girl,” ”Teachers,” ”Disappearance,” ”Hiking,” and so on. This paper attempts to look at the images of teachers in these works to probe into the writing skills and the theme awareness of Chen's writing.