《三里湾》通过三里湾的秋收、整党、扩社、开渠等故事情节，描写了王金生、范登高、马多寿、袁天成四个家庭在扩社过程中的矛盾与变化，生动而真实的反映了农业合作化运动中先进力量和落后力量之间的斗争，农民在生产关系、家庭关系和婚姻问题上的种种矛盾冲突，广阔描绘出农村各阶层人们的精神面貌，歌颂了广大农民的社会主义积极性，揭露了封建思想在农村的流毒和影响，显示了实现合作化的艰巨性、复杂性。（Three Miles Bay through the autumn harvest, Party consolidation, expanding service, channelization and other stories of three miles bay, describes the contradictions and changes of four families of Wang Jinsheng, Fan Denggao, Ma Duoshou and Yuan Tiancheng in the process of expanding Society. It vividly and truly reflects the struggle between advanced forces and backward forces in the agricultural cooperative movement and the contradictions and conflicts among the peasants in the aspects of production relations, family relations and marriage. It depicts the vast rural people from all walks of life spirit, sings the praises of the socialist enthusiasm of the farmers, exposes the feudal rural pernicious influence and shows the arduousness and complexity of cooperation.）