Is There Something Terribly Lacking From the Modernist Fiction?

A lot of people are reading a kind of the popular fiction that's being writtend in realizing this modernist fiction. Is there something terribly lacking from it that isn't true to the way we really experience the wrld? I love this quote from graham green about his, his conversion and why why hee converted. He says she creates characters who wandered like cardboard symbols through a world that was paper thin.