Su Tong likes to write about women. In Another Woman's Life, he wrote five women in one breath. In a shop in a sauce garden, there are three women downstairs and two women upstairs, with a thin floor, leading two lives. The book is covered in a gloomy tone, just like the Huangmei weather described in the book, which is constantly wet and makes people feel stuffy and unhappy.
Su Tong made it clear that people are not happy. There is no good person here. Everyone is deformed and twisted. He is determined to expose the darkest corner of people's hearts and the shady places full of mildew. He is almost unwilling to give people a glimmer of hope, inform you, and tear off the warm coat. This is the naked truth.
Two sisters upstairs, an old maid and an old lady, hide upstairs all day and live in seclusion. Trying to preserve my purity and not be polluted by the world. Don't go out unless you have to, and try not to talk with people deeply. Do some embroidery every day and quietly.
The three women downstairs are earthly women and have nothing to do with men. Three women are a play, not to mention a man in the middle. No matter how obscene this man is, in this small facade, it is so explosive. In the world of women, who is more loved by men gives a woman an advantage, which will also arouse the envy of other women.
upstairs, it seems that the clouds are floating and quiet. Chickens fly and dogs jump downstairs, all day long. Heaven and earth, is it so?
But everything is not what it looks like. The upstairs and downstairs are connected from beginning to end. Downstairs, listening to the noise upstairs, upstairs was also disturbed by the noise downstairs. Upstairs are the flowers in the secluded room, and downstairs are the weeds in the field and thorns. They peep at each other, look at each other, and they are curious about each other. 2
The fight downstairs is getting worse and worse. A common woman, born in the wild and blooming among thorns, is nervous and unscrupulous in broad daylight. Cry, make noise, hit and scold, and let your temper make a splash. Their prosperity hit the ceiling, like white ants, eroding the membrane that separates the two worlds a little.
It's an ugly world, but it's full of vitality. The buzz, desire and passion of men and women hit the hearts of old maids. My sister is older and more stubborn. She is the guardian of this blocked society, and it is she who has blocked her sister's youth. My sister used to have a temperature, and she was induced into this sealed net by her sister. Her heart was teased and shaken. On that day, she found that she had stopped menstruating and declined before she really became a woman. She was extremely alarmed.
My sister is increasingly dissatisfied with this barren life, but she can't get rid of her sister's physical control for a long time. My sister used to be a monster, and her hair almost fell out. Her eyes were as ordinary as this old house, with a strange and gloomy coldness.
At this moment, the women downstairs came up and they invaded the house. They are extremely sensitive in this respect. They have long seen the light prancing in their sister's eyes. They are too familiar with this light. It is the animal light belonging to human beings. It is the original enthusiasm. They smell the breath and run up to fight for their sister. 3
A woman downstairs died in a fight. But I won another companion downstairs, and my sister never wanted to go back since she went downstairs. Although that new world is also a gutter, at least she can be a person. The elder sister upstairs hates the people downstairs. They destroyed her tranquility and the pure world she built, but her talent was so weak that she had to crucify herself with an embroidery needle and curse the woman downstairs with it.
My sister came to collect the body. In a short time, she turned over a new leaf, and rude words came out of her mouth. She didn't become a better person. Where is purity in the lewdness of Meiyu? My sister lives in the guise of stealing the bell, but my sister just went from the false sky to the real world.
Jia Baoyu has a famous saying: "A girl is a priceless pearl before she is married. After getting married, I don't know how to change many bad shortcomings. Although it is a bead, it has no glory. It is a dead bead. When I get older, it becomes not a bead, but a fish eye. "
The two sisters upstairs have been educated by the noble family since childhood. They are cultured, quiet and refined, pearls, and beautiful. They cherish themselves, hiding in treasure boxes, avoiding crowds and men, but in time, they still can't escape the fact that they are dead fish eyes.
A series of killings in the brain-burning movie Identity finally revealed the truth. It turns out that all the characters are actually different personalities in a person. They kill each other, and only one of them survives in the body. So can we think that the so-called secular woman downstairs is actually an imagination, an old maid's United personality, her desire and instinct hidden in the depths of education, and finally she finally liberated herself and walked out of the musty room to smell the truth of the world.
my friend Xiao Yin said, "I was a good girl since I was a child, and I learned to be a bully. I listened to teachers and parents all the way from primary school to middle school. But one day, I suddenly realized that I had never really lived for myself, and my inner enthusiasm was gone, so I didn't know what I wanted, because the road I grew up in was arranged by people." 4
Silver's rebellion came late, but she was so determined. At the age of 3, she still doesn't have a boyfriend, and even refuses the blind date arranged by her parents. She said that those boys were found according to their parents' norms, and she can imagine that she will continue to grow old in such a greenhouse in the future.
One day, Xiao Yin, a female university teacher, resigned behind her parents' backs and went to another city to wander. Her parents were desperate and anxious. They don't understand that the girl I have cultivated with all my heart is so excellent and beautiful that she can have a very good life and a respectable life, so she just chooses that road.
34-year-old Xiaoyin went it alone in a foreign land, met a bad boss, suffered a colleague's snatch, and was also hurt by a man. But she never wanted to go back. "I want to separate my parents' horizons. I was born in that city, studied in that city, and worked in that city. I used to hate it. I want to see more scenery and more people. It may be difficult, but my heart is at ease. " In the rental house, simple square table, silver opened a bottle of red wine, poured it for her girlfriends, and said with a smile. She even no longer hates the man who cheated her feelings, because it is also a practice. "You always rob before you become a fairy." She explained this.
Women are pearls. Since we can't escape the fact that they turn yellow and dark in time, why don't we come out and blossom in the sunshine and rain? Instead of hiding in the corner and getting old quietly, just like the old maid sister upstairs in the article, her life is just a bleak gesture. She finally died. In fact, she was already dead, just a body without soul.
Su Tong used this gloomy novel and these ugly women to tell a truth that even though there are many harshness and darkness in this world, it is still worth exploring and exploring. Only by loving, hurting and struggling can we truly live.