Cao is a tragic figure and victim. The husband she married is a patient with "bone tuberculosis", but Qiao Qi is a healthy person. Her normal lust is suppressed because it is difficult to satisfy, and she is a woman locked in gold chains.

However, Cao's tragedy is that she is the perpetrator, and the victim is not others, but her own child. Qiao Qi was depressed because she couldn't get love. During the Great Depression, she began to go crazy because she did all kinds of terrible things. She tries her best to destroy the marriage happiness of her children, which is a rare female image with abnormal personality in China's novels.

Cao image analysis

Xie Dongfang, Longjie Middle School, Lianping County, Heyuan City, Guangdong Province

I have read Zhang Ailing's novel The Golden Lock twice now. This novel mainly depicts two female images of an old family (Cao) and a young family (Chang 'an) in the urban foreign market through the pale spiritual world of the characters and the lifestyle that can't keep pace with the times. After reading the novel, I felt uneasy for a long time, and I had mixed feelings about the fate of these two characters, especially Cao.

First of all, I think Cao is a victim of feudal ethics. Originally, her social status was not low-"running a sesame oil shop". When she was young, she was not ugly. Many people liked her, including the butcher, my sworn brother Ding Yugen and Shen Tailor's son If She Choose One and Man. The fate of young people, especially "marriage", is not something you can choose. I don't know whether she likes it or not, but she is willing to marry a second young master, Jiang Jia, who is "tired of the smell of dead bodies" and "lifeless". This is the bane of Qiao Qi's distorted personality.

Marriage twisted her humanity. Because her family is not everyone, after all, she is not a good family and is not suitable for the Jiang family. When she married Second Young Master Jiang, she was just an aunt. Later, due to the actual situation-it is impossible for the second young master to marry a suitable wife, the old lady Jiang decided to "hire her as a suitable grandmother" and teach her to "serve the second young master Jiang wholeheartedly". Because essence is just a second young master. Therefore, she has no proper position as a "grandmother" in the Jiang family and is looked down upon everywhere. Even Xiao Shuang, the maid who served her, dared to despise her. When Sanshao got married, Xiao Shuang said, "Even if I married my second grandmother, it would be better than this trip." Look at her words and virtue, and you will know how much she despises Cao. Should the luxury of marrying Qiao Qi be less than others? This is just a social reason. It is precisely because she is so unsatisfactory in the popularity environment of Jiang's life that Cao's peculiar character is formed. Everyman doesn't like anything, so she will make well-meaning remarks, thus forming a well-meaning character.

Because her physical and sensual desires were not satisfied after marriage, her psychology became more "deformed". Her temper has become very grumpy and her character has become more bitter. She always feels that everything in the whole family is not pleasing to the eye, and the whole room is against her. Therefore, in life, no matter what she sees, hears and encounters, she must be subjective and mean.

Cao has no position in the "big feudal family"-Jiang family, but he has a place in the "small feudal family". She is the "emperor's father" in a small family, and excessively interferes with the love and marriage of her son Changbai and her daughter Chang 'an, killing their happy master. This kind of "hurt mood transfer" is a typical "sadist".

To sum up, I think Cao is still a vicious bitch, a sadist with distorted human nature and abnormal psychology.

Although Cao's image is poor, I think she also has a good side of human nature. Although her brother has been to her house several times, she also wants to say some harsh words, but after each scolding, she will generously support him. I'm afraid this is the embodiment of the author's intention to write this novel. A woman who was originally "good-looking" and kind-hearted was distorted into such a girl, let alone a girl who was looked at by others.