Abstract: People under Gogol and Joyce pens are humble as well as great and mortal as well as immortal.Both of them are devoted to wholly revealing people and revealing people as a whole.They try to solve the old and external riddle what reople are.Goyol influenced Joyce greatly and can be ranked in great pioneers of modernist literature.Exploring the difference and similarity between the two can help us realise the route of change and development of human ideology and artistic views from the 19th to 20th centuries.