But the novel still brings us back to the bloody reality. In the novel, Jiang Defu is not as tall and perfect as in the TV series. Jiang Defu in the novel is more like a "person".
This story is about the 1950s and 1960s. In that era, no one can live alone, not to mention Anjie can live a quiet life. This TV play really deified Jiang Defu. Anjie can live a happy life just by hiding under the wings of Jiang Defu. No matter the wind and rain outside, Anjie can still live a quiet life, which is compared with Anjie's.
Perhaps the TV series is to highlight this kind of "beauty", so it deliberately weakens the pain of birth, illness and death. The whole TV series gives people a warm and happy feeling. In the original book, Jiang Defu and Anjie gave birth to seven girls, three boys and four girls. The prototype of the author Liu Jing is their youngest daughter. In the eyes of the little daughter in the novel, the love between parents is not as beautiful as Jiang seen in the play.
Some people say that there are seven children in the novel, so Anjie and Jiang Defu are happier and have two filial children. What's the matter? We can't imagine so many children now, so it's good to be able to feed them. The common feature of the seven children is what Jiang Dehua often said: "less education". The children in the novel are indifferent to Angie. On the contrary, they prefer to be close to Jiang Defu and Jiang Dehua. Like all fathers, Jiang Defu is partial to his daughter.
But Jiang Defu in the novel is obviously impatient with his son, which can be seen in TV series. In the play, Jiang Defu seems to have hit the child only once, and that is the boss Jiang Weiguo. That's because Jiang Weiguo hit the child of Jiang Defu's dead comrade-in-arms, and Jiang Defu flew into a rage before hitting Jiang Weiguo. The description of this passage in the novel is quite different.
In the novel, the child who was beaten was Xu, the child of a dead comrade-in-arms. At that time, I wanted to find meat for the police dog "anti-imperialist" and killed Xu's cat. Later, Xu was seriously ill because of his sad past and had a high fever for several days. When Jiang Defu found out, the lesson he taught Jiang Weiguo was far worse than the drama version. In a rage, Jiang Defu slapped his son in the face with blood all over his face, and then Angie took the child to the hospital, only to know that Jiang Weiguo's eardrum was broken, leaving him with a lifelong disability.
And Xu's father died because of it, otherwise he might have died. Because of this, Xu and his mother were very protected, and their comrades also left for themselves, once becoming confidants, making up all the debts of Xu and his mother. In short, it is all kinds of care. Jiang Defu played the role of father and husband in this broken family. Angie was very dissatisfied with this and even hanged himself.
Although Xu's mother is innocent, they can be regarded as a "third party" in Anji's marriage with Xu. Jiang Defu's guilt for his comrades-in-arms went deep into his marrow, while Jiang Defu's own wife and family were also tortured. Moreover, in that special era, Anjie also suffered some hardships. In the novel, Angie and Jiang Defu have experienced 50 years of ups and downs, but they are actually not much happier than Wen Li in the golden wedding.
In the face of life, no one can be immune. Facing the storm of life, everyone should be baptized. Jiang Defu in the novel is not a good father or husband. Angie and Jiang Defu's marriage is not as happy as we saw in the TV series, don't you think?