Passage Summary: A critic claims that today's novels aren't socially important because they focus on cheap thrills and suspense instead of helping readers understand the moral weight of the characters' actions.

Conclusion: Modern novels generally lack significant social value.

Reasoning: Social significance requires readers to access the author's internal world via the characters' moral views, but modern novels treat bad acts as mere entertainment rather than moral wrongs.

Analysis: The critic's argument relies on a chain of requirements: social significance requires entering the novelist's mind, which in turn requires a moral perspective. The critic then claims modern novels fail the 'moral perspective' test because they prioritize sensationalism. To justify this conclusion, we need a principle that solidifies the link between the failure to portray events as injustices and the loss of social significance. Look for an answer that states if a work fails to engage the reader's moral judgment, it cannot be socially significant.