Reception aesthetics emphasizes the role of the receiver in the reception activities. From the perspective of reception aesthetics, tragic text is not the ultimate factor for its tragic artistic value. The generation of text value must be realized in the dialogue with the receiver, and the receiver must participate in thevaluegeneration process of the tragic text.The famous writer Ba Jin's Home contains rich aesthetic implications both in its desolate tone and sad ending.From the perspective of reception aesthetics, this paper focuses on the tragic image in the novel from aspects of expectation, aesthetic experience and calling structure, so as to understand the whole process of recipients' involvement in the work'svalue generation.