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The full name of "The Life and Opinions of Tristram Tristram, Gentleman" is "The Life and Opinions of Tristram Tristram, Gentleman", but there is no detailed life story of the protagonist in the book, nor his profound insights. The novel starts with "reviewing" his own conception in the mother's body, and most of the novel uses Tristram's mouth to tell the lives and opinions of others, mainly his father and his uncle. As for Tristram's life, there are only a few infrequent mentions of Tristram's life. The order of narration is a hammer in the east and a stick in the west, which completely breaks the chronological order of narration, and only follows the order in which events enter the narrator's mind.

In "The Passionate Traveler", the author uses the words of Pastor Yorick to describe his experience of traveling to France and Italy during the Anglo-French War. To a large extent, the work is a parody of the travelogue genre. The main purpose is not to write about the typical carefree young gentleman, but a tramp driven by impulses and strange ideas. The work is famous for its psychological description of characters. The characters in the book are sentimental and often lament over trivial things, revealing a sad mood in the humor. "The Passionate Traveler" has become a representative work of sentimental literature.