Anne Elnor's "External Diary" works "Darling, Watch the Light Shine", "External Diary", and "External Life" record the daily life in the Serge region of Paris, reflecting her observation and recording of the external world. These works inherit Tournier's views on external exploration and recording, but Erno emphasizes the function of memory more, saving the memory of the times by recording the external world. She believes that literary works should construct another time that is different from the experiential time, in order to present the overall appearance of a past era. In "The External Diary," Erno attempts to touch upon the reality of an era and explore the operational mechanisms of modern society through a collection of fragments of collective daily life. She chose Serge as a symbol of modernity, documenting her daily life to restore the reality of our era.

The spatial layout and functions of supermarkets

French philosopher Baudrillard analyzed the spatial layout principles of large supermarkets in his book "Metaphysics and Simulation", believing that they established a new sociality, becoming the center of the city, concentrating and allocating regions and populations, rationalizing time, routes, and habits. Erno captured the phenomenon of large supermarkets becoming new urban centers, shaping people's new biological clocks and habits. Sanquan Commercial Center is centered on Auchan Supermarket, where public institutions are concentrated, forming a superposition and nesting space of busy day and quiet night. The functions of large supermarkets are vague, integrating all the functions of social organisms and social life, and reorganizing the movement of contradictions in the form of integrated circuits.

The birthplace of new interpersonal relationships

Explored the concept of "non location" proposed by contemporary French anthropologist Ogier, as well as Erno's refutation of large supermarkets as non location. Ojie believes that non locations such as airports, highways, chain hotels, and large supermarkets deprive individuals of their individuality and create lonely contractual interpersonal relationships. However, Erno believes that supermarkets have the attraction of collective living, establishing a new type of community through shared consumption of goods and promoting interpersonal communication. She observed the dialogue between people and products in supermarkets, as well as the community built around products, reflecting the needs of modern society. At the same time, the homogeneous space and consumption habits of supermarkets have smoothed out individual differences and created formal equality. However, this equality masks actual inequalities such as class and gender differences. Supermarkets have a release function for authors, providing an opportunity to relieve work and efficiency pressures. The author felt a sense of relief from being unrecognized in the crowd, rediscovering the experience of urban wanderers in the crowd. Through writing, the author hopes to think and feel in others, achieving unity between oneself and the external world.

Place to distinguish between class and gender

Erno delves into supermarkets as a place to reflect social class and gender inequality in his works. She believes that writing is a political activity aimed at revealing and changing the world, or consolidating existing order. Through her own writing, she showcases the real life of the common people, class solidification, and the internal contradictions brought about by personal struggles. At the same time, she pays attention to the issues faced by women in different social situations, and takes class and gender issues as the main thread of political intervention. Erno's writing intensity is reflected in her positioning herself in the position of the described object, exposing the domination of ideology as a participant.

Symbolizing a community of consumption and desire

Deeply explored the symbolic significance and role of consumer behavior in social structure. Consumption is not only about meeting daily needs, but also a representation of social status and class. Baudrillard's viewpoint is cited to illustrate that consumers' demand for goods has shifted from practical use to the pursuit of symbolic meaning. The differentiation of social status is a fundamental social process that involves both experiential and structural levels, with the structural level being unconscious and a product of economic systems and power distribution. Consumer behavior plays a crucial role in the distribution of social power, with goods serving as indicators of individual identity, while consumer desires are concocted and stimulated by places such as supermarkets.