What are the personality characteristics of Jia Baoyu or Lin Daiyu in A Dream of Red Mansions?

Jia Baoyu's personality is frank, affectionate, gentle, kind and compassionate, and unpretentious and utilitarian. His intelligence and understanding are innate, and the prototype is God and English waiter.

Jia Baoyu's image has the color of Cao Xueqin's autobiography, but it is essentially an artistic fiction. It is a typical image created by the author consciously, which combines three virtues, good and evil. This is very innovative in the history of world literature.

Lin Daiyu's personality is sensitive, careful, indifferent, true, sentimental, extremely intelligent and highly savvy.

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Evaluation of Literary History —— Jia Baoyu

Jia Baoyu experienced the tragedy of marriage and love, witnessed the tragic lives of daughters such as "Twelve Women in Jinling" and experienced the great changes from prosperity to decline of aristocratic families, thus gaining a unique understanding of life and the world. Jia Baoyu is a semi-realistic and semi-fictional figure. As Xian Xian said: "A spoony is born of talent."

His infatuation is not only manifested in his love for Lin Daiyu, but also in his appreciation of the beauty and intelligence of all the girls and his deep sympathy for their unfortunate fate. Jia Baoyu's pain has gone beyond the pain of broken family and depressed personality. It belongs to many people, and it is the pain of feeling that life is limited and the world is merciless.

He was desperate and couldn't find a way out. He has a sense of loneliness and fleeting disillusionment about life, which reveals the temperament of a poet and exudes a sentimental atmosphere. But Baoyu doesn't want to be lonely, don't want to leave life, don't want to leave beloved Lin Daiyu, and don't want to leave many women. Thus deepening his pain.

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