Beautiful and vain Katie married serious and withdrawn bacteriologist Walter. Shortly after the marriage, the passionate and romantic Charlie appeared, and the two of them sparked love. She was hopelessly derailed.
After the husband found out, the lover lifted the veil of hypocrisy and ruthlessness and refused to give up his position, reputation and family. She was taken to the place where cholera happened by her husband. At first, he really wanted to kill her ...
Through Katie's story, the author wants to tell you that women can only grow up by self-awakening. They should not be controlled by vanity and lust, and inner peace can only be given to themselves.
The values brought to her by her family are the source that led her to experience those things.
Katie's mother, Mrs Justin, is a heartless, controlling, ambitious, stingy and stupid woman. She is bent on success through her husband. After despair, she pinned her hopes on the beautiful Katie and hoped that her daughter would marry brilliantly.
Education and family edification are too important for a girl. It is unfortunate for a girl not to have a sensible mother.
Many years ago, I knew a family with a son and a daughter. The girl is almost 12 years old and very beautiful. I once heard my mother say to her daughter, "You are so beautiful, you must have money in the future and give your brother a good future." I was speechless at that time. I wonder what will happen to that girl in the future.
"I want to cultivate a daughter, give her freedom and let her be independent of the world. I want to bring her into this world, love her and bring her up, not just to make a man eat and live for her because he really wants to sleep with her, but to support her for life. "
This is what Katie said at the end of the novel. She can't help blaming her vanity and ignorance on her mother's wrong cultivation. She just wants her daughter to stay away from all this. Better than her.
The husband loves him, but he is cold, rigid and boring.
Do you care if you don't say you love me? I like apples, but you gave me a car full of pears. Life needs to be managed and feelings need to be maintained. It is important for couples to share the same interests, and communication is more important.
In marriage, economy, sex and communication are all important supports. I cried twice when I was studying, but I felt sorry for Walter twice. He was excellent and loved her, but it was over. A good man should learn some methods!
Love rat is scum, but it has "magic"
Charlie, the lover in the novel, is gentle, capable, charming and relaxed.
He is the champion of the local tennis match and the best dancer she has ever seen. He can play the piano and sing comedy songs humorously. He is tall and handsome, and he is affectionate to her.
Look, love rat can give you everything except sincerity. Can flirt, can be romantic, a good man makes sense, a bad man talks about methods, he is scum, but he is happy to stay together.
She doesn't have her own career, and she is obsessed with love and hate all day.
People's needs are like a pyramid, with different levels, from physiology and safety at the bottom to love, respect and self-realization at the top.
Girls still have to have their own careers, or at least a career. When you have your own position in your career, you are less likely to fall into that unhealthy mood.
When Walter took Katie to the epidemic area, she had no choice. After her husband died, she was homeless. It is also because she has no financial ability.
The veil is taken from Shelley's sonnet "Don't lift the painted veil, everyone calls it life".
When her husband found out about her extramarital affairs, she filed for divorce. Her husband made two conditions. The first is that Charlie will divorce, and the second is that Charlie promised to marry her. Or take her to a cholera-infested city. He is a bacteriologist. He wants to get back at her.
Sure enough, lover Charlie will not divorce, let alone marry her. Even in order to avoid trouble, she was advised to follow her to the epidemic area in China. In despair, she went to that dangerous place with her husband.
But in the epidemic area, she was gradually conquered by her husband's noble and precious personality, and then infected by those calm, fearless and helpful people in the epidemic area, and learned compassion and fraternity. She also found inner peace again.
If this is the end of the novel, and Katie gets her inner salvation in such a miserable world, Mao Mu is not Mao Mu. After that, Mao Mu also wrote these:
Katie actually felt relaxed and free after her husband died of cholera. She fell in love with that man not because of his noble qualities, even though he gave his life for her.
She despised and recognized Charlie's hypocrisy and selfishness, but she couldn't resist her lust for him again. She hates herself, but she can't help it. At that moment, her personality dissipated and became desire itself.
A good literary work will not only praise the truth, goodness and beauty, but also touch and peel off the real things that we cannot avoid.
Everyone is a group of walking desires, and if you can't satisfy them, you will suffer. Beneath the veil, there is one side of human nature, another side, and Mao Mu mercilessly tore them apart. You and I should both know that life is not a fairy tale, and there is no such happy ending.
Katie betrayed her husband and her lover.
Life is long, and commitment is beautiful. It's true to love you today, and it's true to not love you tomorrow. Except for a few lucky people, love and marriage are all tests. When the storm comes, you have to have the ability to fight back. It's no use crying twice and hanging three times.
A woman's greatest sense of security is her ability to make money, no doubt! Never forget to learn and grow, and never stop making yourself better.
Gao said, "when I was young, I felt that love was higher than the sky, but after a long time, it was more important than love to find out what kind of life I wanted and what kind of person I wanted to be."
The Veil is a classic reading of women's spiritual awakening. Betrayal or trauma, don't put yourself in the position of the weak and the victim, keep learning and self-growth, and face your feelings and marriage frankly, and beauty will always appear!