Mao Mu's most famous novel is The Moon and Sixpence. Even if I haven't seen it, I've always heard of it. I have heard about it for a long time, so I also collected one. It's a pity that I tried to watch it three times and it ended in failure. So when I touched the veil, I was worried that it would be difficult to read.
Fortunately, this novel is very easy to read and has a compact plot. It took me three hours to finish reading this novel. I described my reading process, sighing while getting angry. Originally, I hated Kitty, but after reading it, I felt I couldn't blame her for her life.
Kitty's lifeline is obvious. The first stage is a beautiful girl, Katie. As time goes by, when she grows up, she has no choice but to marry Walter in order to avoid becoming an older woman. In the second stage, the affair with Charlie made Kitty happy again, but Walter found out and he had to follow him to the village where the plague occurred. In the third stage, Walter died and returned to Hong Kong to fall again. At this time, Kitty was very contradictory, but she finally woke up and made up with her father, determined to educate her children.
Kitty in different periods has a distinct personality color. She is disgusting and compassionate. Follow her life and see how she realizes her goal of self-awakening.
Teenage Katie has everything. She has a good family background, a well-behaved father and a resolute mother. Because of her beautiful face, her mother loves her very much, and her sister who is not outstanding in appearance can only live in her shadow. In social occasions, she is always invincible, surrounded by all kinds of young talents.
Even if Kitty has amazing beauty, it can't stop the erosion from time. She is old, and although there are many men around her, it is not so easy to find a suitable marriage partner.
At the same time, because of her delay in getting married, her mother gradually became dissatisfied with her. On the other hand, her humble sister has found a good marriage partner and will get married soon.
In order not to advance her sister's wedding, Kitty hastily agreed to Walter's proposal.
Walter is ugly, short and inarticulate. As a biologist, his and Katie's life trajectories hardly overlap. It is doomed that two people from completely different worlds will go to the marriage hall so soon.
Indeed, they have no common language and common interests.
After following Walter to Hong Kong, Katie was in pain at this stage. This is her hot-headed decision. She has always been so willful and selfish. Maybe this is not the first time she has made a rash decision. But this time, she obviously can't take responsibility for this decision.
Impulse soon paid off.
Kitty cheated on her with Charlie, the popular assistant chief secretary of Hong Kong. Compared with the ugly Walter, Charlie is tall and pays great attention to keeping and managing his figure. Although he is over forty years old, his physique is still very good. Katie was soon caught, almost at the moment she met Charlie.
During the period of cheating with Charlie, Kitty felt a long-lost happiness. For her at this time, happiness is sensory.
This affair is doomed to be short-lived, so the scene at the beginning of the novel happened. When Katie and Charlie were wandering around the room, the doorknob was caught, but the people outside didn't come in. They took the chance that this man might just be a servant, and even Walter didn't care. You can tell how timid he is from the way he is afraid to open the door.
Walter said nothing, but silently prepared everything. He told Kitty that a plague was erupting in a remote village in China, and he would take Kitty with him.
When Katie heard this, she thought Walter was crazy. What's the difference between this and death? She went to her lover Charlie and asked him to divorce and marry her. Charlie refused without hesitation and even brazenly supported Katie to go to Plague Town.
Kitty is in great pain at this time. From the beginning, Walter saw through Charlie's character and knew his hypocritical heart under the well-meaning face. She was afraid of Walter, and her loving eyes once became cold and stinging.
I know you are stupid, frivolous and empty, but I love you. I know your intentions, your ideals, your snobbery and vulgarity, but I love you. I know you are second-rate, but I love you.
Walter's words are heartbreaking, but Katie can't understand them. She only heard accusations, and she was wronged. She also knows that she is like this, because she grew up in such an environment, and her mother taught her like this. She has never hidden herself.
Finally, Kitty followed Walter to the village where the plague broke out. That's a long way. They had to go there in a sedan chair. The scenery is beautiful, but Katie can't bear to enjoy it. In her eyes, all this smells of death.
When he arrived at the village, Walter began to get busy. He tried to contain the spread of the problem and treat the infected patients. In everyone's eyes, Walter is a hero, and his appearance gave this lifeless village a chance to live.
At this time, Kitty gradually found the bright spot in Walter, although she still couldn't fall in love with her. Kitty doesn't want to stay at home every day and go to the monastery to help nuns with their children. At first, she hated these children. They were dirty and unlovable, but after trying to get along with them, Katie gradually liked them.
At this stage, Kitty gradually wakes up, and she feels that meaningful things are completely different from the past, from sensory happiness to spiritual happiness.
Katie is pregnant, and Walter asks whose baby it is. Katie said, I don't know. But Walter is kind. For the sake of the children, he asked Katie to go back to Hong Kong, but Katie refused. The child, perhaps invisibly, slowly narrowed the distance between the two people.
Seeing this, I can imagine that if this situation continues, after Kitty gradually finds the meaning of life, their spirits will resonate, and such two people may have a happy ending.
Mao Mu is Mao Mu. If you want a happy ending, he will tear it up for you to see.
Walter was infected with the plague. On his deathbed, he said to Kitty: It was the dog that died.
Once, a kind-hearted man saved a dog, but the dog was crazy and wanted to bite the person who saved it. People blame dogs and think that kind people may die, but in the end, people don't die, and dogs die.
Yes, Kitty didn't understand, and it was only under the explanation of others that she knew the source of this sentence.
After Walter left, so did Katie.
Katie's description before she left was very interesting. She told the abbot of the monastery that she didn't want to leave and she wanted to continue to help here. You have to know how incredible it is for this sentence to come out of silly Kitty's mouth. Think back to the state when she first came. Now it's two people.
But the dean rejected her.
Pack your bags and get ready to go back to England. To go back, you need to go to Hong Kong first. Charlie's wife waited early after receiving the news. At her kind invitation, Kitty had to live in it.
I thought I saw through Charlie, and my love had long since disappeared. Unfortunately, Katie was still seduced by Charlie's sweet words, and they had sex after Charlie's wife left.
Many people think Kitty has fallen again, but I think this is the contradiction between the past and the present. She hasn't fully woken up. When facing Charlie, she changed back to her old kitten, so she was easily tempted.
If she continues to be Charlie's lover as before, what Katie has experienced will be meaningless. She is still that stupid person. Fortunately, Katie came to her senses. She refused Charlie's temptation and resolutely returned to England.
However, after returning to England, the original family life has also changed. My mother passed away. Kitty, who wanted to comfort her father, saw the expression of relief on her father's face. She suddenly realized that under the strength of her mother, her father always did something he didn't like, and everyone ignored his feelings.
After a heart-to-heart talk with her father, Kitty decided to live with her father in the future. She hopes to have a girl. She will educate her well and make her an independent and free person, rather than relying on anyone to live.
Kitty's expectations of her daughter are completely opposite to her own personality. At this moment, she finally understood the true meaning of life as a woman.
Finally, talk about movies. It's beautiful. When they lived in the village, they just turned off a screen saver. The story is also beautiful. They fell in love with each other when they got along.
As we expected, Katie woke up earlier, so there was no regret between them.
However, I prefer the ending of the novel. If Kitty wakes up so easily, the story will be more fairy tale. It is this cruel experience that makes Kitty's growth and awakening not so easy. This is the experience of ordinary people. Love alone is not enough. Only by suffering or even bleeding to death can a person be completely changed.