Love of the whole city Bai Liusu's character

"Love in a Fallen City" bears the story and breath of an era, although Bai Liusu, as the protagonist, also bears the culture, human feelings and personality of an era. China's semi-colonial and semi-feudal national conditions make Bai Liusu semi-conservative and semi-open. Conservative home, semi-open home, all kinds of shocks, forced her to change constantly in order to find her own way of survival. Bai Liusu has an ambivalent personality. What are the causes and consequences?

First, the family came down, the conservative mother, money is the only person's brother and sister-in-law * * * forced Bai Liusu to prop up the power behind weakness.

Bai Liusu is the heroine of Love in a Fallen City by Zhang Ailing. Zhang Ailing gave her the first contradictory character, weak but strong.

(A) conservative "old house", weak Bai Liusu.

"'We use an old clock at home.' Their ten o'clock is eleven. They sing out of tune and can't keep up with life. (1) Like this passage, the White House, a declining family that can't keep up with the times, is guarding the traditional concept by guarding the ancient clock. Mrs. Bai is the representative and practitioner of this traditional thought. What they do is bound to be out of touch with the outside world. For example, they cling to the only legacy left by the defeated family, which makes people look dignified. Two men, like married girls, are afraid to go out. There will be no footprints in the outside world.

Like most women at that time, Bai Liusu was a conservative but knowledgeable woman. She obeyed her mother and accepted the so-called matchmaking at home, which led to her first marriage. Mrs. Bai, the old mother who has gone through years of hardships, is still stubbornly guarding the original flavor of the scholarly family even though the White House has fallen. Everything is done according to ancient rules, and people firmly control these rules. It turned out that my daughter was bullied. As an old mother, she should take the lead for her daughter. However, she has been instilling such a traditional idea in Bai Liusu: As a woman, marry a chicken with a chicken, a dog with a dog, and a monkey with a mountain. She thinks that as a woman, it is not a problem to suffer a little.

Brothers and sisters at home are more selfish and will only be close to money. As long as they have money, it is worthwhile to betray their sisters. They can't wait to have more sisters like this to keep their White House going. Therefore, it is even more impossible for Bai Liusu to rely on them to find a foothold.

(2) Weak women have propped up the tenacity behind weakness for themselves.

This little girl, a weak scholar, can't even make a decision for her mother, so she can only stand up and make a decision herself. In this way, Bai Liusu bravely stood up from the weak side and propped up the strong side. Make your own decisions and get a hard divorce. Although there was too much pain and helplessness in the process of leaving her husband's family, she persisted. But it shows that tassel is no longer a cowardly woman who abides by "three obedience and four virtues" in the traditional sense and accepts everything. She already knows how to protect her personality and rights by law. It can be seen that Bai Liusu is a Bai family with a new school of thought in the new period, and she is the first person to walk out of "three obedience and four virtues".

Although she is as conservative as the White House, she is the only "special person in the White House" who can accept new ideas and ideas and has her own thoughts. She didn't want to waste her excellent youth in this unhappy love and suffered humiliation, so she chose her own path-divorce. Weak, she can only accept the coldness and insult of the White House to her return to China, accept all the old rules at home and accept the marriage arranged by the White House. And following the Tang family for many days, her cowardice made her endure from the beginning. However, weakness is not everything in her character. In the limit of weakness, she became angry and showed her strong side. Such strength is not acceptable to everyone, only Fan Liuyuan. In the White House's view, no matter how powerful Bai Liusu is, she still needs a home, a home as long as she has money. Bai Gongguan believes that "three obedience and four virtues" and "three cardinal guides and five permanents" are the fate of all women, and they are also the fate. Just like Mrs. Bai, she spent her whole life trying to stick to this "three cardinal guides and five permanents" without any mistakes. On the other hand, Bai Liusu believes that women also have the right to be their own masters, which is a new view in the new era. The reason why she is weak is that she has not completely broken away from the traditional shackles of feudal society, especially growing up in a strict "feudal society" like Bai Mansion. She still has "the blood of feudal society" in her bones. The cruelty of marriage is like an opportunity for her to get hurt and change her blood. Her strength is "new blood" and her weakness is "old blood". "New blood" gave her great strength, while "old blood" was the string that bound her life. This formed the weak contradictory character behind Bai Liusu's strength.

Second, I don't believe in fate, but I am willing to be a veritable "gambler".

The failure of marriage, divorce, living in my parents' home, and being forced by my elder sister-in-law to return to the Tang family to be a widow all my life made Bai Liusu a gambler. Her only bet is her youth and beauty. She doesn't believe in fate, but gives herself to it-being a gambler.

I think Bai Liusu's second prominent contradictory character is that she didn't believe in fate, but gave herself to it because she chose to be a "gambler".

Gao Juan, a doctoral student at Shandong University, wrote in "Interpretation of Zhang Ailing's Love in the City": "For tassel, many people regard her as a gambler in love, a vulgar woman who takes marriage as her profession and courtship as her livelihood." ②

(1) Choosing divorce against fate and refusing to attend her ex-husband's funeral.

When Mrs. Xu came to ask to go back to the funeral, several brothers and sister-in-law clamored for her to go back. "Third Master scraped his scalp with a fan handle and said,' It's all right …'" What we see here is that Bai Liusu's brother wants to leave his sister alone, as long as someone takes her in to lighten his family burden. Look at Bai Liusu's attitude again: "At this time, she said simply:' Divorced, and then she became his widow, which made people laugh! "She casually continued to make her shoes, but a cold sweat broke out on her finger and the needle was astringent, so she couldn't pull it out any more. "(4) Bai Liusu know, since divorced, she is free, and then go back to be a widow of the dead, it is equal to oneself and was sentenced to death. So she said that others would laugh, fearing that others' laughter was false, and that divorce was not afraid of others' laughter. Is she afraid of being laughed at for going to her husband's funeral? Obviously, she is very clever. She knew that since she had escaped from the besieged city, she would not fall into it again. She began to be afraid that her brother and sister-in-law would sell her again for money, but she couldn't show her inner fear. She tried to hide it, and her palms were sweating, which only she knew.

She is responsible for the divorce herself, even if it is not up to her to decide whether to return to widowhood this time. Third brother, every word is aggressive. No matter whether Bai Liusu threatens the law or personal freedom, he always adheres to the White House tradition of "Three Cardinal Principles and Five Permanent Principles". He clearly shouted that it was a ghost for his sister to be born in another family and die in another family. It is obvious that he wants to drive his sister out of this house. Bai Liusu is not a bully. She knew that her own brother had obviously spent all her money, and now it was her turn to withdraw money. How could he give up so easily? So you can't give up. Once you lose it, you lose yourself and your whole life. So I quarreled with my brother. However, there is not only a conservative figure in the White House, but a group. Bai Liusu robbed himself with a group of relatives who only cared about money. Unexpectedly, she became a cash cow in the family.

She refused to accept the old concept of "three cardinal guides and five permanents" and chose to rise up and resist, which was her character expression of not believing in fate.

(2) While resisting fate, she chose to believe in fate-giving herself to the "bet".

Being wronged, I thought of my mother again, so I asked my mother for help again and asked for fair treatment. However, life is always so cruel to Bai Liusu, and her mother refused her entreaties again. Under such circumstances, the weak Bai Liusu stood up, and the only thing she could do was to make a strong decision and make a "bet" for herself.

She played this "bet" carefully, for fear that she would lose all her money if she was not careful. So when Mrs. Xu introduced her, she wanted to see if the other party could give her a stable home. It doesn't matter whether she is rich or poor, as long as she is a stable family. However, everyone was so cautious in this gamble that Bai Liusu could not find a suitable candidate.

Even until she met Fan Liuyuan, she was more cautious than before. Because she knew that Fan Liu wanted love instead of marriage, but on the contrary, she wanted marriage instead of love. When it was determined that Fan Liu wanted love, she walked away. Obviously, she is afraid that she can't accept the harm again. So she chose to give up this "bet".

Originally, we all thought that she and Fan Liuyuan would never intersect. Surprisingly, Fan Liuyuan secretly gave Bai Liusu a platform. So "tassel's hand has never touched dominoes and dice, but she also likes gambling." She decided to gamble on her future. If she loses, her reputation will be ruined and she is not qualified to be a stepmother of five children. If she wins, she can get Fan Liuyuan, the dream goal of everyone, and get rid of the evil spirit in her chest. "(5) here, Bai Liusu's" gambler "character fully exposed. Going to Hong Kong means giving her a bigger casino. If she is lucky, she will get Fan Liuyuan's love. If anything goes wrong, she will lose her reputation. Choosing to gamble again is a manifestation of her belief in fate.