鍾理和一生坎坷多舛、貧病交迫，然而，他熱愛人生、熱愛文學，始終以溫馨敏銳的筆觸，僕僕風塵於創作之途，倒在血泊中死而後已。歷來，研究鍾理和的專書散論頗多，大抵論述其民族意識、愛國情操、農民文學、鄉土文學等居多，而有關鍾理和疾病書寫的部份，則較少學者做深入的研究。因此，本文擬從書寫己身、妻兒、其他人物的疾病等方面，探討鍾理和在書寫疾病時，隱藏在其內心深處的意圖，期能激勵世人勇敢面對逆境，開創屬於自己的坦途。

Jhong Li-He had a rough time all his life, and suffered from both poverty and sickness. But he loved his life, was passionate about literature, and wrote warmly but keenly in his literary creations, though he passed away in blood. Over the past decades, a considerable number of books and critics have been made on Jhong Li-He, most of them were with respect to his national consciousness, patriotism, peasantry literature, and local literature. Very few scholars have made further studies in connection with Jhong Li-He’s writings about diseases. Therefore, this paper tried to focus on the intentions deep inside Jhong Li-He’s heart when he wrote about diseases of others, his wife, children and his own, when he tried to inspire people to courageously deal with adversities, and pave the way for their successes.