Reflections on Divorce

Divorce is also a representative novel by Mr. Lao She. It tells the trivial life of some clerks and their wives in Beiping. Although the novel is called Divorce, no one really gets divorced at the end.

Zhang Dage is a matchmaker. He is a native of Beiping. He sympathizes with the country people. It happened that his colleague Lao Li came from the country and was about to divorce his wife. Finally, under Zhang Dage's persuasion, Lao Li took his family to Beiping. Although Lao Li is a country person, it can be seen from his words that he has no real feelings for his wife. He has a pair of children. His son looks like him and his daughter is long. Their neighbor, surnamed Ma, is a very enthusiastic old lady. Unfortunately, Mrs Ma's daughter was abducted and went to Nanjing, and never came back. Her son married a beautiful wife, but her son was away from home for three to five days, and she felt sorry for the new wife. In the department, men gather together, and in life, women gather together. Mrs. Zhang, Mrs. Li, Mrs. Fang Duner and Mrs. Qiu study their own men all day. They teach Mrs. Li, who is new to Beiping, that men are all the same, so we must watch them! Nowadays, the hairdressers, waitresses, teachers and students in Beiping are hard to keep their men from being tempted! At night, it is stipulated that a man must come home. If he doesn't come back, you don't have to leave the door for him! Mrs. Li mixed up with these clerks' wives and wore two pigtails, which made Lao Li dislike her even more. He thought, Linger wears two pigtails, which is harmful to her!

Lao Li looks down on Ding Er, who lives in Zhang Dage's house, but his wife can talk with him. She thinks he has his own opinions on trivial matters in life, and Lao Li is even more helpless. Once Lao Li invited Ding Er to dinner, Ding Er confided his grievances to Lao Li. He believed that a woman could ruin a man. When he was young, he was honest, and the sedan chair had not been carried into the door. The bride began to make trouble. He wanted to show her off, but who imagined that the new wife had even dropped the bowl of her children's property. After so many years, she had not seen her son. He saw the busy postman all day, and he was very sad. Lao Li no longer looked down on Ding Er so much. Later, he went to prison naively. Only Xiao Zhao could help Zhang Dage, but he threatened Zhang Dage that he would marry Zhang Dage's daughter Xiuzhen, who was brought up by Ding Er. Ding Er gave his life and killed Xiao Zhao one night, which made Lao Li feel that he was a hero. At first, I only felt that Mr. Ding was a poor man, living in Zhang Dage's house all his life, and I just didn't understand why the bride was in a sedan chair. Why did a deformed marriage break out at the end of the day? Why couldn't it be stopped in advance? Later, I felt that Mr. Ding was a man. He knew that he wanted to kill people, but he still turned to Xiao Zhao without hesitation. He had brains. He told Xiao Zhao in advance that I knew about you and Xiuzhen, and won the trust of Xiao Zhao. He pretended to be optimistic about the couple, told Xiao Zhao one night that Xiuzhen was waiting for you, invited him over, and then ... In order to repay Zhang Dage and have a big child for himself.

The ending of the novel is not as sad as I expected. I thought that these clerks would be dissatisfied with their wives and choose to divorce. These wives would make a scene and agree to divorce. The ending was just that Lao Li, who was promoted to first-class clerk, returned to the countryside with his wife and a pair of children. Ding Er was not shot and went to the countryside with Lao Li. Brother Zhang found a job in the yamen again, and was acquitted. Mrs. Qiu, Mrs. Fang Duner and her husband continued to live a down-to-earth life.

The novel is not too long, but it impresses me enough. At first, I have an attitude that marriage will never be settled. I think Lao Li will divorce his wife and then fall in love with Ma's new wife. She is poor, lives with her mother-in-law, and has not seen her husband for a long time. She is beautiful. Lao Li likes her very much. Lao Li and his wife have no communication from beginning to end. When I think he should explain it to her most, he Later, this attitude was not so strong, but it still exists, and the times may be different. I still think that an unsuccessful marriage will not be calm even if it can't reach a chicken feather's position. I think I still think too much about marriage. If two people have been together for a long time, how can they not be bored, although they will not be bored with each other. The early stage of marriage is love, and the late stage is really tacit understanding. How blessed is a person, so that he can love you as he did during the passionate love period from beginning to end, and you love him as well. Now I have an indescribable feeling, which is inexplicable, like a longing for love and some fear of marriage, but I am still young, so don't worry about it for the time being!

I admire Mr. Lao She. He has the objectivity and simplicity of a male writer, but he can also write the elegance and delicacy of a female writer. So far, he is not one of my favorite writers. My goal is to read all his works within two years. Such good works deserve to be tasted again and again!